Offer closes December 8, 2008
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ciphergoth-- Daily Telegraph, 7 Dec 2007Pope Benedict XVI is offering relief from purgatory to Roman Catholics who travel to Lourdes over the next year, the Vatican said yesterday.
Pilgrims to the shrine in south-west France will receive "plenary indulgences" from the Pontiff, which the Church says reduce the time spent being "washed" of sin after death. The indulgences will be available from this weekend until Dec 8, 2008.
[...] In August the Vatican opened an airline service offering pilgrims direct flights from Rome to Lourdes.
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Re: Have we travelled back to 1517 while I wasn't looking?
Date: 2007-12-09 10:59 pm (UTC)Re: Have we travelled back to 1517 while I wasn't looking?
Date: 2007-12-09 11:37 pm (UTC)True, true . . . and of course they (the Curia) think they have . . . but honestly half the time what they write is so obscure, in such "lofty" language and has so little to do with the realities of daily parish & human life that I've even seen the priests politely rolling their eyes about many of the pronouncements.
As in "Yes, yes we understand, no girls can be 'Alter Boys . . . " so instead we have children who are "Alter Servers".
Heaven is high and the Emperor is far away.