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Post #1219205

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RicOlie_2
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Religion
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Date created
23-Jun-2018, 3:46 AM

moviefreakedmind said:

RicOlie_2 said:

Warbler said:

But you have to admit the Catholic Church has changed a lot since the Middle Ages. If it were still the same as it was, Pope Francis would endorse burning me at the stake.

Yes and no. The teachings of the Church haven’t changed,

Indulgences?

Nothing’s changed there. You can still get them and they were never supposed to be sold in the first place. That’s why it was so upsetting to Luther. Indulgences basically involve going to confession, receiving the Eucharist, praying for the pope, and usually doing some other pious act. The abuse was when clergy started selling them. In these cases, they weren’t even valid, so it was basically a case of clergymen taking advantage of the laity, who thought they were actually receiving some sort of spiritual benefits. It’s unfortunate that the Church didn’t really crack down on it until the Protestant Reformation was well under way.