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You're listening to episode 394 of Jimmy Aiken's Mysterious World, where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. I'm Dom Betanelli, and I'm joined today by

Jimmy Yakin. Hey, Jimmy. How did Dom? Folks, for sure to stick around to the end of the episode.

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Okay, so we're here in San Giovanni Rotundo, which is the place that was made

famous by Saint Pio of Petrelchina, or as I will forever call him, Padre Pio. And we're,

we still have some questions from our pilgrims. And so we're going to be

answering more pilgrim questions tonight so that they don't have to wait to get their questions

answered. All right. So let's start right off with the first question from Adam M. Isn't

obtaining a plenary indulgence cutting corners of the divine justice for one soul,

while another soul who doesn't have any indulgencer suffers full punishment?

Okay, so the first thing I'd say is that this involves a conceptualization

of how purgatory works that is not so much in favor these days of

punishment that is actively being applied to people from without this is an image that

that goes backaways in church history, but more recent magisterial documents

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