The sale of indulgences didn't work quite like that. The Catholic Church, like the Orthodox, has free confession which is the stairway to heaven. The sale of i

The sale of indulgences didn't work quite like that. The Catholic Church, like the Orthodox, has free confession which is the stairway to heaven. The sale of indulgences was a charitable donation done to mitigate the penalties of Purgatory. Abuses were committed, but the telling of the protestants is quite fantastic. It was not, for example, a get-of-Hell sale