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Articles tagged Plenary Indulgence

Two-year jubilee in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas includes special indulgence

The plenary indulgence, granted by the Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary, can be obtained by any of the faithful who make a pilgrimage to a church, oratory, or holy site connected to the Dominican Order through the saint's birthday on January 28, 2025.

• Aug 4, 2023Aug 7, 2023

Pope institutes Year of St. Joseph, offers new plenary indulgences through 2021

Various prayers and devotions to St. Joseph can earn the Catholic faithful complete remittance of temporal punishment due to sin in 2021.

• Dec 10, 2020Jun 18, 2021

Pope asks Christians worldwide to pray ‘Our Father’ on March 25 in response to coronavirus

Two days later, on March 27, he will grant a plenary indulgence through his 'Urbi et Orbi' blessing.

Dorothy Cummings McLean

• Mar 23, 2020Jun 18, 2021

Should we pray for ‘our Holy Father’s intentions’ even if a pope has bad intentions?

An individual reigning pope is not the only one who determines what are 'the Holy Father's intentions' for which we must pray.

Peter Kwasniewski

• Oct 3, 2019Jun 18, 2021

Catholics attending the 2019 March for Life can gain a plenary indulgence. Here’s how

This is the second year in a row such an indulgence is available.

Claire Chretien

• Jan 16, 2019Jun 18, 2021

Church will offer Catholics plenary indulgence for attending 2018 March for Life

The Catholic Church teaches this is a major spiritual benefit.

Claire Chretien

• Dec 21, 2017Jul 30, 2021