Of those who Can Grant Indulgences (Four Articles)
Summa Theologica — Saint Thomas Aquinas
We must now consider those who can grant indulgences: under which head there are four points of inquiry:

(1) Whether every parish priest can grant indulgences?

(2) Whether a deacon or another, who is not a priest, can grant indulgences?

(3) Whether a bishop can grant them?

(4) Whether they can be granted by one who is in mortal sin?

whether an indulgence ought to
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