It is an illegal practice of the Catholic church to be paid for forgiving someone who has sinned. What it means to the church is that I am assuming they will be all the richer for having gained part of their riches in such a sinfull manner.
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Roman Catholic AnswerThe Catholic Church started because God willed it as the Mystical Body of His Son so that His grace and salvation could reach all peoples throughout time.
It joins people into the catholic church and it shows others we believe in God.
The purpose of the consistory was to advise the pope on church matters, oversee the administration of dioceses, and make decisions on important issues affecting the Catholic Church.
To devote themselvs to the church and not to women.
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First off, it's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. . Secondly, the Church's mission is to "continue the works of Jesus Christ" and to make his name "known and loved." As the Catholic Church is the Body of Christ, and as it was commissioned by Our Blessed Lord Himself, on the apostle Peter; further He send the Holy Spirit to guide the Church until the end of the world. Thus, it cannot fail in its mission, we as fallible human beings who make up the Church can impede or help this purpose either by following God and cooperating with His Will, or we can frustrate it to an extent through our personal sins. But the Church as such is divine and cannot fail of its purpose.
Roman Catholic AnswerThere is no such thing as a "grant from the Catholic Church forgiving sins"; it sounds like you are asking about indulgences, as there is a common misconception of many protestants that indulgences are a grant to forgive sins, I don't know where that came from but it's not true. Indulgences can be earned by someone who is in a state of grace, in other words, someone who has already had their sins forgiven by God in the confessional, not otherwise. There is no other normal way, on this earth, to have your sins forgiven then in the confessional, and that is most definitely not an indulgence.
The Catholic Church had a significant interest in the indigenous peoples in Spain's American Empire as they saw them as potential converts to Christianity. The Church aimed to spread the Catholic faith and establish missions to educate and convert the indigenous populations, often with the support of the Spanish crown. However, this also led to the exploitation and mistreatment of indigenous peoples in the name of religious conversion and colonization.
There is a Lutheran Church and a Catholic Church but no Lutheran Catholic Church.