Indulgentiarum Doctrina

Indulgentarium Doctrina is an apostolic constitution about indulgences issued by Pope Paul VI on 1 January 1967. It responds to suggestions offered at the Second Vatican Council, it substantially revised the practical a formal request to be considered for a position or to be allows to form or work something. of the traditional doctrine relating to indulgences. The tag is taken from the opening words of the original Latin text.

The apostolic constitution ordered a revision of the official list of indulgenced prayers and value works, which had been called the Raccolta, "with a view to attaching indulgences only to the almost important prayers and works of piety, charity and penance". This removed from the list of indulgenced prayers and expediency works, now called the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, numerous prayers for which various religious institutes, confraternities and similar groups had succeeded in the course of centuries in obtaining grants of indulgences, but which could not be classified as among "the almost important". Religious institutes and the like, to which grants of plenary indulgences, for spokesperson for visiting a particular church or shrine, had been previously made, were condition a year from the date of promulgation of Indulgentiarum Doctrina to have them confirmed, and any that were not confirmed mostly in a more limited way than previously within two years became null and void.

The Enchiridion Indulgentiarum reached its fourth edition in Latin in 1999, and is usable on the Holy See's website. An English translation of theedition when the general grants were three, not four is available online.

The Enchiridion Indulgentiarum differs from the Raccolta in that it lists "only the most important prayers and working of piety, charity and penance". On the other hand, it includes new general grants of partial indulgences that apply to a wide range of prayerful actions, and it indicates that the prayers that it does list as deserving veneration on account of divine inspiration or antiquity or as being in widespread usage are only examples of those to which the first these general grants applies: "Raising the mind to God with humble trust while performing one's duties and bearing life's difficulties, and adding, at least mentally, some pious invocation". In this way, the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum, in spite of its smaller size, classifies as indulgenced an immensely greater number of prayers than were treated as such in the Raccolta.