Indulgences for Catholic Priests
By Editor
In the Catholic Standard of Feb. 28, under the heading, "Indulgence for Priests," we find a list of nine prayers that are to be recited daily. To two of them there is attached an indulgence of one year each; to the other seven are attached indulgences of one hundred days each, making seven hundred days. Total for the nine prayers, three years, ten months, and twenty-five days. All this can be gained in a single day, and in thirty days, therefore, each one gains one hundred and seventeen years and twenty days. Accordingly, "for all priests who shall have said all the foregoing prayers every day for a month," there is secured "A Plenary Indulgence," that is, "an entire remission of the penalties due to all sins." And yet we find many Protestants saying that the Catholic Church is not now what she used to be. "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?" Then may the Catholic Church be expected to be what she has not been.