the abuses of the catholic church

Cards (5)

  • nepotism: giving important (well paid) jobs to your friends and family
  • simony: selling important jobs in the church
  • pluralism: being bishop of more than one diocese
  • absenteeism: bishops being absent from their diocese
  • sale of indulgences: church taking money for the promise to get your soul ( or the soul of a friend/family member ) out of purgatory and into heaven quicker