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In Roman Catholicism, the remission of temporal punishment for sins that have been forgiven through the sacrament of penance. The theology of indulgences is based on the concept that, even though the crime of sin and its eternal punishment are forgiven through penance, divine justice demands that the sinner pay for his crime either in this life or in purgatory. The first indulgences were intended to shorten times of penance by substituting periods of fasting, private prayers, almsgiving, and payments of money for religious purposes. After the 12th cent. they were more widely used, and abuses became common as indulgences were put up for sale to earn money for the church or to enrich unscrupulous clerics. J. Hus opposed them, and M. Luther's Ninety-five Theses (1517) were in part a protest against indulgences. The Council of Trent put an end to the abuses in 1562 but not to the doctrine itself.
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