The Catholic News Agency portal (December 31, 2025) promotes purported plenary indulgences for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day through recitation of the Te Deum and Veni Creator, along with receiving blessings from the “pope” and “bishops.” The article claims these practices remit temporal punishment for sins, requiring detachment from sin, sacramental confession, Communion, and prayers for the antipope’s intentions. This fraudulent offer exposes the conciliar sect’s sacrilegious parody of true indulgences.
Usurped Authority Renders Indulgences Invalid
The very premise of this “indulgence” constitutes blasphemy against the ecclesia docens (teaching Church). Canon 912 of the 1917 Code stipulates that only legitimately constituted ecclesiastical authority may grant indulgences. The “bishops” and antipope Bergoglio (falsely styled “Leo XIV”) possess no jurisdiction, having publicly espoused heresies condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) and Pius X’s Lamentabili (1907). As St. Robert Bellarmine establishes in De Romano Pontifice, manifest heretics automatically lose office without declaration. The conciliar sect’s blessings carry no spiritual weight, being performed by men who’ve rejected the lex orandi through their reformed rites.
Those who devoutly receive the papal blessing “urbi et orbi”… will also be able to obtain these special blessings
This statement constitutes sacrilege on two counts: First, Bergoglio’s apostasy renders his blessings spiritually void. Second, the article equates electronic transmission of blessings with sacramental efficacy, contradicting the Church’s teaching that blessings require proper matter, form, and intention (Council of Trent, Session VII). The conciliar sect’s obsession with digital sacramentalism exposes its naturalistic reduction of grace to ex opere operantis (effect dependent on recipient’s disposition) rather than ex opere operato (objective sacramental power).
Sacramental Fraud in Confession and Communion
The article’s conditions for “indulgences” presume validity of Novus Ordo sacraments – an impossibility given the sect’s invalid rites. Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) established definite form for Holy Orders, which Paul VI’s Pontificalis Romani (1968) abolished. Consequently, all “ordinations” using the new rite lack validity, rendering “absolution” and “consecration” by conciliar “priests” mere theatrical gestures. St. Alphonsus Liguori’s Theologia Moralis (1755) condemns such simulated sacraments as gravely sinful:
It is necessary that the minister not only intends to do what the Church does, but also actually uses the proper matter and form.
Moreover, reception of Novus Ordo “Communion” constitutes idolatry, as the invalid rite cannot confect the Eucharist. The article’s instruction to receive “Communion” on the same day as indulgence-seeking compounds sacrilege upon sacrilege, fulfilling St. Pius X’s warning about Modernists reducing sacraments to “empty ceremonies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 24).
Theological Contradictions in Indulgence Mechanics
The article’s description of indulgences as “remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven” superficially mimics Catholic teaching but ignores essential dogmatic foundations. The Council of Trent (Session XXV) defined indulgences as drawing upon the thesaurus ecclesiae (treasury of merits) – a concept the conciliar sect implicitly denies through its ecumenism and rejection of extra ecclesiam nulla salus. By permitting prayers for the antipope’s intentions, the sect demands cooperation with heresy, violating St. Paul’s injunction against communion with darkness (2 Corinthians 6:14).
praying for the intentions of the supreme pontiff is fulfilled by reciting one Our Father and one Hail Mary
This mechanistic reduction of prayer to formulaic recitation embodies the conciliar sect’s Pelagian obsession with quantifiable “spiritual acts.” True Catholic devotion requires not merely vocal repetition but interior conversatio (inner conversion), as St. Teresa of Avila demonstrates in The Interior Castle. The article’s silence about the necessity of sacramental confession to validly ordained priests (Council of Trent, Session XIV) further exposes its sacramental nihilism.
Omission of Eschatological Reality
Most damningly, the article never mentions the four last things – death, judgment, heaven, and hell – reducing the indulgence’s purpose to generic “sanctification.” Contrast this with Pope Clement VI’s bull Unigenitus (1343), which grounds indulgences in Christ’s redemptive sacrifice and the saints’ merits to free souls from Purgatorial fire. The conciliar sect’s indulgence marketing campaign reflects its broader abandonment of novissimorum (last things) theology, instead promoting a worldly “mercy” devoid of justice.
Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) establishes Christ’s social kingship as the foundation for all spiritual gifts: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” By omitting Christ’s royal authority, the article reduces indulgences to personal therapy rather than participation in the Church’s triumphant mediation.
Conclusion: Spiritual Counterfeits in Apostate Times
This indulgence promotion exemplifies the conciliar sect’s modus operandi: retaining Catholic terminology while evacuating it of supernatural content. As St. Vincent of LĂ©rins warned in Commonitorium (434), such doctrinal corruption manifests when “the Church’s jewelry is given over to the heretics.” True faithful must recognize these “indulgences” as dangerous illusions, recalling that only priests ordained in apostolic succession can administer valid sacraments and only a canonically elected pope can grant indulgences. In this time of apostasy, the authentic thesaurus ecclesiae resides with those clergy preserving the integral faith, not with the Vatican’s occupiers peddling spiritual counterfeits.
Source:
How to obtain a plenary indulgence for the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026 (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 31.12.2025