Well, Guest, I'm pretty sure that "Nine First Fridays" indulgence is still on the books, for people who think in that mode. It, and many other indulgences, are in a book called the Raccolta. I guess there has to be something left for the legalists. It gives them peace of mind. That sort of legalism is from another time, but why rattle the people who see value in it?

Current thinking is that all but the most truly horrible people are going to end up in heaven, anyhow. Pol Pot and Hitler and Idi Amin may have hell to themselves.

-Joe-