A plenary indulgence is remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.

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Sr. Faustina wrote in her diary that she began the Novena for the conversion of the whole world that all may recognize God's Mercy and that all souls may speak of His Goodness. Jesus said ...

The pope invoked the Holy Door of St. Peter’s, which he opened on Christmas Eve to launch the 2025 Jubilee, as representing ...

The Catechism teaches: “The invocation of the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always. When the holy name is ...

and from the hand of all who hate us; to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant, the oath ...

According to the Vatican, the tradition began in 1300 when Pope Boniface VII announced the first Jubilee. Later, Jubilees ...