An indulgence was ________
A. a payment to obtain an office in the church
B. forgiveness given by the pope exclusively to Protestants in order to entice them back to the church
C. a punishment meted out by the pope to heretics
D. a payment from a monarch to the Church
E. a remission of the temporal penalty imposed on penitents by priests as a work of satisfaction for their confessed mortal sins
Answer: E
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