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To: Cronos
Remember that "in 1567 Pope Pius V canceled all grants of indulgences involving any fees or other financial transactions

Can't say that I do - before my time.

The false doctrine and scandalous conduct of the "pardoners" were an immediate occasion of the Protestant Reformation.[4] In 1517, Pope Leo X offered indulgences for those who gave alms to rebuild St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The aggressive marketing practices of Johann Tetzel in promoting this cause provoked Martin Luther to write his Ninety-Five Theses, condemning what he saw as the purchase and sale of salvation. In Thesis 28 Luther objected to a saying attributed to Tetzel: "As soon as a coin in the coffer rings, a soul from purgatory springs".[40] The Ninety-Five Theses not only denounced such transactions as worldly but denied the Pope's right to grant pardons on God's behalf in the first place: the only thing indulgences guaranteed, Luther said, was an increase in profit and greed, because the pardon of the Church was in God's power alone.[41]

This oft-quoted saying was by no means representative of the official Catholic teaching on indulgences, but rather, more a reflection of Tetzel’s capacity to exaggerate

While possibly offically condemned, it would appear that the practice was widespread into the 16th century.

You don't get humor do you?

21 posted on 06/20/2011 8:02:22 AM PDT by from occupied ga (your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga

Again — technically they were never “sold”, so you couldn’t sell them even prior to 1567. Post 1567, you can’t even use any fees etc. for these. Either way, the joke was not accurate historically


29 posted on 06/20/2011 9:14:32 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrząszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego słynie.)
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