The National Catholic Register portal, a flagship organ of the conciliar sect’s propaganda apparatus, publishes a tutorial on acquiring eight plenary indulgences during the first week of November. The article, authored by Daniel Payne and distributed via CNA, presents the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum of the usurping “Apostolic Penitentiary” as a functioning juridical reality, instructing the faithful of the neo-church to perform prescribed works—cemetery visits, “Communion,” prayer for the “Holy Father’s intentions”—under the illusion that these mechanical acts remit temporal punishment. The thesis is clear: the conciliar sect continues its diabolical simulation of Catholic sacramental economy, dispensing counterfeit spiritual currency from a vacant See to souls deprived of the true Church, true priesthood, and true sacrifice.
The Juridical Nullity of the Conciliar “Apostolic Penitentiary”
The article anchors its entire premise on the authority of the “Vatican’s Apostolic Penitentiary” and its Enchiridion Indulgentiarum. From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, this dicastery ceased to exercise any legitimate authority with the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. The subsequent claimants to the Roman See—John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost)—are manifest heretics who, by their public adhesion to the conciliar apostasy (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the New Mass), have ipso facto severed themselves from the Mystical Body. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “A manifest heretic, by that very fact, ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” Consequently, the “Apostolic Penitentiary” operating under these antipopes is a paramasonic bureaucratic fiction, devoid of the potestas iurisdictionis necessary to bind the faithful or loose temporal punishments. Its “Handbook of Indulgences” is a modernist fabrication, no more binding on a Catholic than the statutes of a Masonic lodge.
The Theft and Corruption of the Indulgence Doctrine
The article defines a plenary indulgence as “a grace granted by the Catholic Church through the merits of Jesus Christ to remove the temporal punishment due to sin”, listing conditions: state of grace, detachment from sin, sacramental confession, “Eucharist,” and prayer for the “Holy Father’s intentions.” This presentation strips the doctrine of its theologia crucis and reduces it to a transactional mechanism worthy of the quantum satis mentality condemned by the Council of Trent (Sess. XXV, Decretum de Indulgentiis). True indulgences flow from the thesaurus Ecclesiae—the infinite merits of Christ and the saints—applied by the valid Vicar of Christ exercising the potestas clavium (Mt 16:19). The conciliar sect possesses neither the thesaurus (having severed itself from the Head) nor the potestas (having no valid key-bearer). The “conditions” listed are a caricature: the “Eucharist” received in the Novus Ordo “table of assembly” is invalid due to the defective form and intention of the “priests” ordained in the 1968 rite; “confession” to a “priest” lacking valid orders and jurisdiction is a simulation; prayer for the “Holy Father’s intentions” means praying for the intentions of the antipope Leo XIV, i.e., for the consolidation of the abomination of desolation in the Holy Place (Mt 24:15). Such “indulgences” are simonia sacrilega—the trafficking in simulated spiritual goods.
The Liturgical Revolution’s Erasure of the Octave
The article admits the All Saints’ Octave was “demoted in the liturgical calendar around the middle of the 20th century”—a euphemism for the liturgical vandalism of Pius XII’s 1955 Holy Week reforms and the subsequent 1969 destruction of the Missale Romanum by the Freemason Bugnini. The octave, established by Pope Sixtus IV (a true Pope), was a manifestation of the Church’s lex orandi, lex credendi: eight days of celebrating the Communio Sanctorum and suffraging the Animae Purgantes. Its suppression was not a “demotion” but a profession of faith in the new religion of man, where the Church Militant no longer intercedes for the Church Suffering because the very dogma of Purgatory has been obscured by the conciliar “hope of universal salvation.” The fact that the “Apostolic Penitentiary” now grants indulgences for the very octave its own liturgical revolution abolished exposes the schizophrenic incoherence of the neo-church: it clings to the externals of the treasury (indulgences) while having repudiated the internals (the Mass, the priesthood, the dogma).
Subordination to the Civil Power: The COVID Precedent
The article notes with apparent approval that “the All Saints’ octave was notably extended throughout the entire month of November in both 2020 and 2021 amid concerns about avoiding large gatherings… due to the COVID-19 pandemic.” This single sentence condemns the conciliar sect more thoroughly than any theological treatise. The “Vicar of Christ” and his “Penitentiary” subordinated the salvation of souls and the rights of the Church Suffering to the dictates of a Masonic world state. They accepted the premise that the jus divinum of the Church to govern sacred times and places yields to the jus civile of “public health.” Pius XI in Quas Primas thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar sect, by extending the indulgence period at Caesar’s command, confessed that its “indulgences” are mere pastoral concessions manageable by the state, not divine rights exercised by the Church. Quod aliud est quam diabolica simulatio?
The Naturalistic Language of the Neo-Church
Linguistically, the article is a masterpiece of secularized bureaucratese. It speaks of “obtaining” indulgences, “fulfilling terms,” “completing works,” “gaining the indulgence”—the vocabulary of a mercatus spiritualis. Absent is any language of compunctio cordis, timor Dei, satisfactio poenitentialis. The “faithful” are reduced to consumers of spiritual products; the “cemetery visit” becomes a box-ticking exercise (“at least mentally pray”). The “prayer for the Holy Father’s intentions” is the badge of communion with the antichurch. The article’s tone is cheerful, informative, devoid of the horror vacui that should grip a Catholic contemplating the void of the post-conciliar wasteland. This is the lingua novae religionis: functional, therapeutic, anthropocentric.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Sect’s Simulacrum of Mercy
This article is a symptom of the systemic apostasy diagnosed by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the Modernist substitution of the supernatural by the natural, of grace by psychology, of authority by consensus. The “eight plenary indulgences” are a placebo for the spiritually dead. The faithful of the neo-church, deprived of the True Mass, true priesthood, true hierarchy, and true doctrine, are fed a simulacrum of the Church’s treasury to keep them tranquil in their separation from Rome. The article functions as opium for the laity: “Do these easy works, say these prayers, and your relatives are freed from Purgatory.” It is the indulgentia quaestui condemned by Trent, repackaged for the age of consumerism. The real tragedy is not that these indulgences are “invalid”—it is that millions of souls, misled by the usurpers in the Vatican, die trusting in them, while the true means of suffrage—the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered by valid priests in union with the true Pope (sedevacante, the See is vacant, but the Church endures in the catacombs)—are denied them by the very structures that claim to dispense mercy.
The Silence on the True Conditions of Suffrage
What the article omits is damning. It does not mention: the necessity of the Missa Propitiatoria (the True Mass) as the supreme suffrage; the requirement of valid priestly orders (nullified by the 1968 rite); the duty to reject the conciliar sect as schismatic and heretical; the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus which binds the living to pray for the dead within the unity of the Church. By silence, the article teaches that one can be in communion with the antipope Leo XIV, attend the Novus Ordo service, receive invalid “Communion,” and yet “gain” indulgences. This is theological fraud of the highest order. As the Syllabus of Pius IX condemns: “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21)—the conciliar sect lives this error by acting as if its simulated sacraments and jurisdiction suffice for salvation.
Conclusion: Reject the Counterfeit, Cleave to the True Treasury
The National Catholic Register’s guide is a snare of the devil, dressed in the vestments of piety. Catholics who desire to suffrage the faithful departed must flee the conciliar sect, seek out validly ordained priests (consecrated in the traditional rite before 1968, or validly ordained thereafter by bishops of the true succession), assist at the Missa Tridentina, and offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary for the Animae Purgantes. They must pray the Office of the Dead, the Rosary, perform works of penance in unione cum Papa vero—not the antipope Leo XIV. The eight “indulgences” of the neo-church are eight steps into the abyss. Qui habet aures audiendi, audiat.
Source:
Here’s How Catholics Can Get Eight Plenary Indulgences During the First Week of November (ncregister.com)
Date: 31.10.2026