Staff Writer This year, according to the Vatican, fortunate Roman Catholics can receive a plenary indulgence if they pray in front of a Nativity scene in a Franciscan church anytime between December 8, 2023 and February 2, 2024. In Romanist theology, nearly every Christian who passes away goes to purgatory. Here, even though their sins are forgiven, believers still need to be punished for their sins and cleansed from their attachment to sin before they can go to heaven. This may take five years, or it may take ten thousand years.
Notably, however, this indulgence does not apply to nativity scenes in front of churches run by Jesuits
That's weird, isn't Pope Frank the Hippie a Jesuit?
And here I thought it was weird that at a funeral service we could help the guy (who had died 2 weeks earlier) get to heaven by taking communion. (Well, that was after the incense was waved over his remains ....)
Of course, I couldn't take communion because, even though I was raised Catholic, first communion, confirmation, the whole 9 yards, AND I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I hadn't been to confession in front of the guy in the little box room with the screen divider in decades to be absolved of my sins so I was unworthy ...
Notably, however, this indulgence does not apply to nativity scenes in front of churches run by Jesuits
That's weird, isn't Pope Frank the Hippie a Jesuit?
And here I thought it was weird that at a funeral service we could help the guy (who had died 2 weeks earlier) get to heaven by taking communion. (Well, that was after the incense was waved over his remains ....)
Of course, I couldn't take communion because, even though I was raised Catholic, first communion, confirmation, the whole 9 yards, AND I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I hadn't been to confession in front of the guy in the little box room with the screen divider in decades to be absolved of my sins so I was unworthy ...