Reformation v. 2?

The Catholic church announced that indulgences are back. America's jumped on the bandwagon. This is probably everything to do with the recession (the article politically-correctly didn't mention this).

“Confessions have been down for years and the church is very worried about it,” said the Rev. Tom Reese, a Jesuit and former editor of the Catholic magazine America. In a secularized culture of pop psychology and self-help, he said, “the church wants the idea of personal sin back in the equation. Indulgences are a way of reminding people of the importance of penance.”