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[Joshua Charles🇻🇦 @JoshuaTCharles]

This power to forgive sins was always believed to be exercised by the Church and Her ministers. They are simply doing what Christ said they would do: the same and even greater works than He (John 14:12). He forgave sins, and “as the Father sent me, so I send you” (John 20:21). Their mission is now His, it includes the forgiveness of sins after baptism, and extends to the ends of the earth.

If you’d like some quotes on this from the Church Fathers (many more are coming), you can check out this Quote Archive as well: https://t.co/5kK7AAXmwJ

More here (Sacrament of Last Rites): https://t.co/ZlTkahzvVA

Part of the Church’s authority in this regard is therefore imposing a disciplinary penance on Her children for the exact same reason Scripture provides: to help them grow in virtue (which helps them avoid future sins).

So what is an indulgence? It is simply a LESSENING of this punishment, as the root word, “indulge,” implies.

Why would the Church do this?

For a very simple, and pastoral reason: many Christians, by choosing to gravely sin after their baptism, have a great deal of discipline they have yet to undergo, because of spiritual lethargy, lack of repentance, etc. The Church, realizing this, seeks to encourage them to take care of this NOW, TODAY, instead of continuing to put it off. Therefore, through an indulgence, She indulges the sinner, lowering the temporal punishment of those sins in order to encourage that child to get fully right with God.

Again, think of a parent/child. Let’s say a child ran away from home, partly because they knew how severe the parent’s righteous punishment would be. To help them come back Home and be fully at peace with them, the parent lowers the discipline, with a promise of clemency if they come home and take the lowered punishment.

That, in its heart, is what an indulgence is. It’s simple, it’s beautiful, it’s biblical. It is in no way something separate from Christ’s sacrifice, but is built entirely and completely upon it.

I respect how you stand up for a great deal of truth. If you would ever like to talk more, please feel free to reach out. I’d be very happy to talk more. I came from a background similar to yours and didn’t become Catholic until I was 31. I did so for many reasons, but I realized how much I had been deceived or simply misunderstood Catholic doctrine. When I made a conscious choice to simply listen without being defensive, and simply ponder what the Church was saying, and how it sprang directly from Christian and constant Christian belief, I was blown away by what I finally began to see.

God bless you. I hope the above explanation has helped. It doesn’t address everything, but I hope it at least puts some things on the table that are clarifying.

A Happy New Year to you.

Joshua Charles

[Dr. Ben Tapper @DrBenTapper1]

How many vaccines will it take before people start questioning whether we’re administering too many to our children? We need to eradicate the National Childhood Vaccination Injury Act of 1986 and restore liability to Big Pharma.

[Warren English @TheWarEnglish]

Big Pharma wants you sick.

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[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

UNPOPULAR opinion:

Every time the 'race' of a person is used as an adjective UNNECESSARILY, it propagates existing racial division.

If you say 'black man', 'white woman', etc. when simply 'man' or 'woman' would 100% suffice, then you're playing into the game...

[Leonydus Johnson @LeonydusJohnson]

Agreed. And as a percentage of total people shot and killed, it was 3.8% of black suspects (9/236) and 5.1% of white suspects (19/371) who were unarmed.

That means that 96.2% of black suspects killed were armed while 94.9% of white suspects were armed

Is that white privilege?

[Larry Elder @larryelder]

How many unarmed blacks were killed by cops last year? 9. How many unarmed whites were killed by cops last year? 19. More officers are killed every year than are unarmed blacks. When do the #BlueLivesMatter protests begin?

#GeorgeFloyd

[Burgess Owens @BurgessOwens]

Go to church and the liberal media will shout you down as a murderer spreading corona virus.

Burn down a church they hail you as a hero and @chrissyteigen will post your bail.

[WSB-TV @wsbtv]

JUST IN: We just got the photos of all of the officers charged for use of excessive force on 2 college students: https://t.co/esNfdnqOgM

[🇺🇸 🍊 Antoine Tucker @montaga]

1min Quick & to the point about George Soros & the deepstate Plan! https://t.co/etMsHpBDcK

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

My Admin has done more for the Black Community than any President since Abraham Lincoln. Passed Opportunity Zones with @SenatorTimScott, guaranteed funding for HBCU’s, School Choice, passed Criminal Justice Reform, lowest Black unemployment, poverty, and crime rates in history…

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

The oldest fraud is the belief that the political left is the party of the poor and the downtrodden.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

It always amazes me how many people there are who never seem to understand that what they have done has contributed to the consequences that followed.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

To this very moment slavery continues in parts of Africa and the Islamic world. Very little noise is made about it by those who denounce the slavery of the past in the West, because there is no money to be made denouncing it and no political advantages to be gained.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Barack Obama's political genius is his ability to say things that will sound good to people who have not followed the issues in any detail — regardless of how obviously fraudulent what he says may be to those who have.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

It is so easy to be wrong—and to persist in being wrong—when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Black votes matter to many politicians — more so than black lives. That is why such politicians must try to keep black voters fearful, angry and resentful. Racial harmony would be a political disaster for such politicians.

[Leonydus Johnson @LeonydusJohnson]

"Racial harmony would be a political disaster for such politicians"