To: Desdemona; cupcakes
Indulgences have NEVER been sold. Never.
Indulgences
were sold and, among other things, the proceeds were used for the renovation of St. Peter's Cathedral.
The "official" position of the RCC is made moot by the facts. Indulgences sold. Money collected. St. Peters Cathedral renovated with part of the proceeds. Where the rest of the money went is another story.
531 posted on
03/20/2004 3:22:40 PM PST by
OLD REGGIE
((I am a cult of one! UNITARJEWMIAN) Maybe a Biblical Unitarian?)
To: OLD REGGIE
I just went to confession and I don't want to mess it up, so I'm going to be nice about this, and actually respond.
Where are the records? What records? Please, produce them, from the Vatican records. All researches who have seen them, say that there was no selling of indulgences. St. Peter's was built with donations, admitedly some may have been coerced, but indulgences were never sold.
544 posted on
03/20/2004 3:32:34 PM PST by
Desdemona
(Music Librarian and provider of cucumber sandwiches, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary. Hats required.)
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