Recommended Book: First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians - Kindle Edition (get Kindle app for phone) (paid link)

Indulgences: From the Latin word meaning remission, the remission before God of the temporal punishment due to those sins of which the guilt has been forgiven, either in the sacrament of Penance or because of an act of perfect contrition, granted by the competent ecclesiastical authority from the Treasury of the Church to the living by way of absolution, to the dead by way of suffrage.

Clement VI (1342-1352): "Our Merciful Father desired to lay up treasure for His children, so that from it there might be 'An infinite treasure to men, which they that use, become the friends of God' (Wis. 7:14). This treasure He entrusted to the Blessed Peter, the keybearer of heaven, and to his successors, His Vicars on earth, to be by them administered for the profit of the faithful, and, for good and reasonable causes, to be mercifully applied to such as are truly penetint and have confessed their sins, now for the total, now for the partial remission of the debt of temporal punishment due to sin, whether that of all men or that of individuals."