Darryl Hart posted this today:
Pope Francis will grant a plenary indulgence – a remission of all temporal punishment due to sin – to World Youth Day Catholic participants, the Vatican announced July 9.
Great lots of folk assume that, after Luther humiliated Rome over the sale of indulgences—remember Tetzel’s jingle, “When the coin in the coffer clinks, the soul from purgatory springs”?—Rome must have abandoned the sale of purgatory. They haven’t. As has been chronicled over the years on the HB (here, here, here, here, and here is what Calvin said).
Some things have changed but some things haven’t. The fundamental controversies remain.
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He has taught church history and historical theology since 1997 at Westminster Seminary California. He has also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007.
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We need a new jingle…come on folks, let’s brainstorm… I’ll start…with Evey “LIKE” or Tweet, a sinner in Purgatory says “sweet!”… or … use PayPal to pay for a pal in Purgatory …
If there wouldn’t be anything that you could add to the cross then it just wouldn’t be Rome…now would it?