Today, the rules for obtaining the so-called jubilee indulgence are very simple, yet demanding and solemn. One must confess, receive communion, pray according to the Pope's intentions, and perform one ...

Editor’s note: 2017 is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Once a month, we'll look at different aspects of the movement. Indulgences were spiritual privileges or financial payments ...

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On this Jubilee Year of Hope-themed episode of “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley chat with Father Ramil Fajardo, a tribunal judge in the Archdiocese of Chicago, about indulgences: What are they? Where did ...