On New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, and the first day of 2026, the Catholic Church offers the opportunity to obtain plenary ...

Summer presents a spiritual surprise. Several plenary indulgences are possible for you, your family and friends to gain for yourself or to apply to any soul in purgatory, from your own relatives to ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis announced on Sunday (March 22) that he will be delivering an extraordinary Urbi et Orbi blessing and indulgence due to the coronavirus pandemic. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — ...

“The administration of mercy, from the standpoint of the Penitentiary, is an authentic experience of the infinite love of the Father for each one of us.” Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, Major Penitentiary ...

The specific Nov. 2 plenary indulgence one can receive for their own soul by visiting a church or an oratory and reciting an Our Father and the Creed, can now also be done on any day in November. A ...

Women are pictured in a file photo praying on All Souls' Day at a cemetery in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic response measures restrict most gatherings, the Vatican has ...

Pope Benedict XVI is offering Catholics a chance to gain a plenary indulgence on Dec. 8, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, to mark the 40th anniversary of the closing of the Second Vatican Council.

Women are pictured in a file photo praying on All Souls’ Day, Nov. 2, at a cemetery in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic response measures restrict most gatherings, the Vatican ...