At the request of the International Federation of Catholic Medical Associations, the Apostolic Penitentiary of the Holy See grants, on behalf of His Holiness Pope Francis, a plenary indulgence for the participants of the XXVIth World Congress for Catholic Physicians, held in Rome, September 15-17th, Augustinian Institute, under the usual conditions (sacramental confession, eucharistic communion and prayer to the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff).
This is how an indulgence is defined in the Code of Canon Law (can. 992) and in the Catechism of the Catholic Church (n. 1471): “An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints”.
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