Participants in the National Eucharistic Congress and related National Eucharistic Pilgrimage now have opportunities to receive plenary indulgences, Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, announced April 9.
"It is with gratitude to the Holy Father that we
A reader writes: “I asked someone who frequently stays after Mass to say the Rosary if she’d go with me to a nursing home to pray it. She said she wouldn’t because each time she says the Rosary in front of the
A reader recently saw some confusing headlines regarding indulgences. “I saw the following headline today in an English newspaper: “Vatican Offers ‘Time-off’ purgatory to followers of Pope Francis’ Tweets.” A second headline says further: “Papal Court handling pardon for sins says contrite
A reader asks: “Are the living who undertake the requirements of a plenary indulgence, and gain the plenary remission of temporal punishment, rare? If so, it would seem as if Holy Mother Church is saying, ‘I’ve got good news and bad news
A reader asks: “I’ve been reading about apparitions where Our Lady revealed to the children in Fátima and to Sister Mariana in Quito, Ecuador, that some souls spend the rest of time in purgatory, some bishops and religious for 80 to 100
As COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease in Italy, the country's bishops are hoping a new tourism initiative will attract would-be pilgrims.
One way the June 1-Sept. 17 initiative, "Ora viene il bello" ("Now comes the beautiful"), hopes to draw pilgrims is by granting
The Vatican announced on December 8, 2020, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, that Pope Francis had established a special Year of St. Joseph, which ends on the same date in 2021. The pope also allowed the possibility for the faithful to
With the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe closed for her feast to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Pope Francis said Catholics still can receive a plenary indulgence Dec. 11 and 12 for their Marian devotion if they follow certain conditions.
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Plenary or full indulgences traditionally obtained during the first week of November for the souls of the faithful in purgatory can now be gained throughout the entire month of November, the Vatican said.
Also, those who are ill or homebound and would not
The worldwide coronavirus pandemic is not God's judgment on humanity, but God's call on people to judge what is most important to them and resolve to act accordingly from now on, Pope Francis said. Addressing God, the pope said that "it is