Indulgences 101: The history of a controversial Catholic practice

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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On this Jubilee Year of Hope-themed episode of “Jesuitical,” Zac and Ashley chat with Father Ramil Fajardo, a tribunal judge in the Archdiocese of Chicago, about indulgences: What are they? Where did they come from? And how are they practiced today? Zac, Ashley and Father Ramil discuss: - The evolution of indulgences, from the early church through the Protestant Reformation to today - The four current grants of indulgences, which involve acts of faith, charity, penance and witness - How to approach indulgences during the current Jubilee Year of Hope In Signs of the Times, Zac and Ashley discuss a recent announcement from Buckingham Palace that King Charles II and Queen Camilla will be received in a Vatican audience by Pope Francis on April 8; and describe the busy lives of nuns working the Vatican switchboard to soothe anxious callers asking about Pope Francis’ health. Jesuitical is coming to Philadelphia! Join the Jesuitical team in Philadelphia for a Holy & Happy Hour at the National Shrine of St. Rita of Cascia. OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Topic: How to talk to your friends about your faith Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 Location: 1166 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146 Time: 6 p.m. adoration of the Blessed Sacrament; 7 p.m. group faith sharing and happy hour (come to either or both!) Links for further reading: Vatican norms for Jubilee indulgence include pilgrimage, penance, service The Key Of Heaven: A Prayer Book for Catholics Manual of Indulgences The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius Breaking: Pope Francis will receive King Charles III and Queen Camilla in audience in the Vatican on April 8 At the Vatican switchboard, nuns soothe anxious callers about Pope Francis You can follow us on X and on Instagram @jesuiticalshow. You can find us on Facebook at facebook.com/groups/jesuitical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Chosen Season 5 is back for Holy Week.
0:03.7	Tables are turned, betrayal is imminent,
0:06.6	and powerful leaders plot the death of Jesus.
0:09.7	The Chosen Last Supper.
0:11.8	In theaters, March 28th.
0:13.7	For tickets and more information,
0:15.8	visit Thechosenlast supper.com.
0:28.7	Music and The Last Supper.com. Hello and welcome to Jesuitical, a podcast from America Media for saints and sinners.
0:34.2	You can join us each week for honest conversations about the Catholic Church in our world today, sometimes over drinks. I'm Ashley McInnes, and I'm joined by Zach Davis. Great to be with you, Ashley. How you doing? I'm pretty good. Yeah, I haven't had a good lent. Excited for our show in Philly next week. So once again, if you haven't heard already, we're going to be in
0:54.4	Philadelphia. More details in the parish announcements later on in the show, but check out the show
0:59.6	notes. I love Philly. Love to get on the road. So looking forward to it. How are you?
1:03.6	I'm jubilant, some would say. Oh, yes? Yeah. I am positively jubilant because we are doing the first of a series of episodes that we're going to bring to you throughout this Jubilee Year of Hope focused on some of the pillars of the Jubilee. So this first one is focused on indulgences.
1:24.3	Yes, which is always a concept I have had a really hard time with, just both understanding, getting
1:30.1	on board with, especially, you know, like time off purgatory always just felt like a confusing
1:35.4	thing to me.
1:36.5	It's also very much tied to the Protestant Reformation.
1:39.8	It was like, oh, the church was abusing these things.
1:42.4	So they just kind of have a bad rap in my mind.
1:45.4	For sure, for sure. But we have a great guest on today to kind of break this down. And he did
1:51.0	convert me in the end. I'm not going to. So who are talking to? We are talking to Father Rameel Farharto. He is a
1:57.8	tribunal judge in the Archdiocese of Chicago. So we start just talking to him a little bit
2:02.9	about being a tribunal judge because that's not something I'm very familiar with. So we hear about that.
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