Praying for the dead: Indulgences, the millennium and the Jubilee.

From: Catholic Insight | Date: November 1, 1999| Author: Lalonde, Albert | Copyright information

In the month of November Catholics pray for the dead. November 1 is All Saints' Day; November 2, All Souls'. We speak of the Church Suffering (purgatory), the Church Struggling (the living), and the Church Triumphant (the saints). Together these three make up the Catholic Church which has Christ as her Head.

Late last December, I picked up a newspaper and learned that our Holy Father had issued a document, Incarnationis mysterium, on the question of indulgences. The occa...

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