Rome, Italy, Mar 9, 2009 / 18:03 pm
The president of the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper, said last week that "indulgences remind us of the need for salvation, which can only come through Jesus Christ. They also remind us that the Christian life is a spiritual battle and is penitential by nature."
The cardinal’s comments were published in an article by the L’Osservatore Romano in which he also stated that indulgences are intended to be "a useful and beneficial pastoral aid to confront the struggle against the power and violence of evil, with the grace of God and the help of the intercession of the entire community of saints."