- Whether an indulgence can ever be granted to one who does not fulfill the conditions required?
Whether an indulgence can ever be granted to one who does not fulfill the conditions required?
Objections
❌ Objection 1 : It would seem that an indulgence can sometimes be granted to one who does not fulfill the required conditions. Because when a person is unable to perform a certain action his will is taken for the deed. Now sometimes an indulgence is to be gained by giving an alms, which a poor man is unable to do, though he would do so willingly. Therefore he can gain the indulgence.
❌ Objection 2 : Further, one man can make satisfaction for another. Now an indulgence is directed to the remission of punishment, just as satisfaction is. Therefore one man can gain an indulgence for another; and so a man can gain an indulgence without doing that for which the indulgence is given.