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Category: Plenary indulgence

Visit your dead friends

by | Nov 11, 2021 | , , , , , , | 0 |

If this was an ordinary year, the Octave of All Saints — the weeklong stretch when the Church offers a plenary indulgence for souls in purgatory, obtained in part by visiting a cemetery and praying for the dead — would be over by the time you’re reading this column. The period is typically Nov. 1 through Nov. 8.

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Archbishop: Pope’s plenary indulgence means ‘happy death’ still possible, even without a priest

by | Mar 27, 2020 | , , , , , , | 0 |

Pope Francis has recognized that in “these difficult days” caused by the rapid spread of COVID-19, that people may die without the comfort of having a priest present, Archbishop Hebda said. And that’s why he’s granted a plenary indulgence for people who are quarantined from the novel coronavirus, “to give us the same kind of comfort at the moment of our death.”

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