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The pope’s new purgatory pardons

35 Comments by Mickey McLean December 7 1:16 PM

Indulgences, which helped spur on the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century, continue to crop up in Roman Catholicism. The BBC reports:

Pope Benedict XVI has authorised special indulgences to mark the 150th anniversary of the Virgin Mary’s reputed appearance at Lourdes.

(HT: Tim Challies)