POPE RESTORES INDULGENCES FOR MILLENNIUM.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | November 28, 1998 | Copyright

For Roman Catholics, the year 2000 offers early salvation.

Pope John Paul II announced yesterday that throughout the millennium celebration, penitents who do a charitable deed or give up cigarettes or alcohol for a day can earn an ``indulgence'' that will eliminate time in purgatory.

Indulgences are an ancient form of church-granted amnesty that releases penitents from certain forms of punishment in this life or the next.

The medieval church sold indulgences, a practice that drove Martin Luther to rebel, leading to the Reformation. They remain a ...

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