Indulgences out of the attic for the new millennium.(Pope John Paul allows plenary indulgences in the year 2000)

National Catholic Reporter | January 8, 1999| | Copyright

The recent news that John Paul II, in is pre-Christmas document, Incartionis Mysterium ("The Mystery of the Incarnation"), had reawakened the somnolent practice of reaping indulgences turned my mind back to the days when I collected both baseball cards and indulgences. My school knickers sagged under the weight of my Heine Manush and Van Lingle Mungo cards, while my soul groaned with the burden of enough plenary indulgences to clean out purgatory.

I needed none of the superabundant satisfaction lesser souls withdrew from the overburdened accounts of the Blessed ...

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