Decree Concerning Indulgences, Session 25, December 4th, 1563. Whereas the power of conferring Indulgences was granted by Christ to the Church… the use of Indulgences… is to be retained in the Church… [The Church] condemns those who either claim that [indulgences] are useless or who deny that [the Church has] the power of granting them. [However], moderation be observed… [The Church desires] that the abuses which have [led to] Indulgences [being protested] by heretics, be amended and corrected, [and] commands all bishops, diligently to collect, each in his own church, all abuses of this nature, and to report them [so that] the gift of holy Indulgences may be dispensed (given out) to all the faithful, piously, holily, and incorruptly.

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