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by Thorrez 2053 days ago
>Does it not amount to a money-making racket at best, or, more probably, extortion?

The vast vast vast majority of indulgences have no money aspect at all. See the list of plenary (meaning all temporal punishment is removed) indulgences on Wikipedia[1], none of them involve money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence#Plenary_indulgences