[Campion]

Let's review some basics:

1. Walking through the "holy doors", or actually the pilgrimage necessary to get to them, combined with meeting the "usual conditions" (a good confession, the devout reception of holy communion, and prayers for the intention of the Pope) earns one an indulgence. (Note for the Protestant fire-breathers: there is no charge; it is completely free.)
2. An indulgence frees one from purgatory. Since only the saved can even get to purgatory, it has nothing to do with "avoiding eternal damnation".
3. Why would the Daily Mail get something so basic so completely wrong? Well, it's a secular paper in a traditionally anti-Catholic, and now just plain anti-Christian, country. Don't worry, they hate evangelicals as much as they hate Catholics. Muslims, on the other hand ...

[metmom]

It's pointless since there is no such thing as Purgatory.

Jesus' blood cleanses us from ALL sin. Nothing else can do it.

Suffering doesn't. Suffering in some hypothetical spiritual places doesn't. Penance doesn't. Indulgences don't.

ONLY the blood of Jesus.