According to Catholic Church doctrine, specific good works and prayers can get you a reduced sentence in purgatory, which is pretty much a waiting room to the afterlife.

And while corrupt church baddies used to sell so-called indulgences back in the Middle Ages, today there are plenty of ways to get a reprieve from the temporal punishment of your sins free of charge – like, say, following the pope on Twitter.

Mindful of the faithful who cannot afford to fly to Brazil, the Vatican’s sacred apostolic penitentiary, a court which handles the forgiveness of sins, has also extended the privilege to those following the ‘rites and pious exercises