Good to Know With Father Joe

Very Rev. Joseph L. Waters, J.C.L.

Father Joseph Waters

Father Joe Waters is Judicial Vicar and Censor Librorum of the Diocese of St. Petersburg.

What Are Indulgences?



Fr. Joe, during the Jubilee Year, there seems to be a lot of talk about indulgences. Weren’t indulgences one of the causes of the Protestant Reformation? What is the Catholic teaching on indulgences, and how do I get an indulgence?