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What term described the Catholic's church's policy of reducing punishment of sins after one's death that led Martin Luther to challenge the Catholic church?

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Indulgences. Indulgences were payments to the church to reduce the amount of punishment on judgement day. These payments were considered to be the one of the main corruptions of the Catholic church leading Martin Luther to challenge them. I hope this helped.
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