I didn’t make the weird rules of the Catholic church. When American Catholics come to Italy they are usually in denial of what transpires in their home church. Not my problem. I was pushed down by the Vatican guards for moving too slowly. No warning and I hit the ground hard. If I’d been pregnant there would have been a lawsuit. The magic doors are very real to Italian Catholics and indulgences bought you forgiveness, just like those doors (once in a lifetime walk I was told). So much manmade doctrine in the Catholic church. Just read the bible to learn what God said. Too much has been added. It is offensive to God, frankly.
Matthew 15:9
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
What is offensive to you is your problem not mine. I stand by what I said. Indulgences have nothing to do with forgiveness of sins. Indulgences are something done that relate to the temporal consequences of sin. When we sin it has consequences for yes our own soul but someone else is impacted by our sin. So an Indulgence can only be given to one after they have confessed their sins via the Sacrament of Confession, you can’t be in venial sin. And indulgence can be done for ones self or for the souls in purgatory, not someone else among the living.
So one can go promise to go to daily Mass and pray for the souls in purgatory as an indulgence for them or do the same for oneself.
And I don’t need a protestant heretic to tell me what is in the Bible nor what Rev. Bubba and sister Ethel say at the local 1st strip mall congregation of the what is happening now.