I disagree fren, perhaps it is time to update your medieval understanding of Catholicism. Much like our Nation just because some corrupt entities have run it for their own benefit in the past or present does not mean it is intended to work that way.
And the link is Wikipedia, blah blah, I doubt most of us read Latin and if you were inclined to read the authoritative sources on this Wikipedia helpfully lists them.
Funny story, the priest that married my parent's was a Latinist at the Vatican. I think a lot of people here would like him, he refused to put a picture of the Pope in his office. Every time maintenance would go in to fix something they'd put up the picture and every time Fr. Reginald came back in he'd take it back down. He also didn't like the Jesuits.
He was wise to the corruption that power, the focus on it, and earthly possessions could cause. He was a Carmelite and was skeptical of any non-mendicant order and lived his vow of poverty quite strictly.
He slept on the floor with only a blanket over him. And stopped wearing the clerical garb because he felt it no longer fit with how the poor dressed. His only real earthly possessions besides his simple clothing were books and some means of writing. He was most pleased when I told him if he expressed some of his opinions aloud 500 years ago he would have faced an inquisition and been imprisoned at the very least.
I disagree fren, perhaps it is time to update your medieval understanding of Catholicism. Much like our Nation just because some corrupt entities have run it for their own benefit in the past or present does not mean it is intended to work that way.
And the link is Wikipedia, blah blah, I doubt most of us read Latin and if you were inclined to read the authoritative sources on this Wikipedia helpfully lists them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgentiarum_Doctrina
Thank you. I don't like Wikipedia, but I don't read Latin either. Appreciate.
Funny story, the priest that married my parent's was a Latinist at the Vatican. I think a lot of people here would like him, he refused to put a picture of the Pope in his office. Every time maintenance would go in to fix something they'd put up the picture and every time Fr. Reginald came back in he'd take it back down. He also didn't like the Jesuits.
Interesting. I am sure he knows about the Jesuits.
He was wise to the corruption that power, the focus on it, and earthly possessions could cause. He was a Carmelite and was skeptical of any non-mendicant order and lived his vow of poverty quite strictly.
He slept on the floor with only a blanket over him. And stopped wearing the clerical garb because he felt it no longer fit with how the poor dressed. His only real earthly possessions besides his simple clothing were books and some means of writing. He was most pleased when I told him if he expressed some of his opinions aloud 500 years ago he would have faced an inquisition and been imprisoned at the very least.