[boatbums]

I know it helped them keep the people captive for centuries by telling them ONLY the priests could grant them absolution and ONLY the sacrifice of the Mass with the priests alone being able to "confect" the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus in the Eucharist, could restore their state of grace so they MIGHT be able to go to heaven when they die - after much time in Purgatory, of course. It's no wonder they forbid the laity from having a Bible in their own language and reading it without the clergy's help to tell them what it really meant. I praise God every day for opening my eyes and heart to the truth of the gospel!

[metmom]

AMEN!!!!!

[marajade]

That was what indulgences were for. J/K but you get it. Corruption in abundance.