Jeez, Rip Van Darkages, you really should know something about that which you choose to slander.
The requirements for a plenary indulgence are tougher than for a partial. After all, a plenary indulgence remove all the temporal punishment due for the sins committed up to that time.
(If you sin later, of course, the temporal punishment connected with the new sins isn't covered by the earlier plenary indulgence, but, at least the punishment for the old sins isn't revived.)
"To acquire a plenary indulgence," says the Enchiridion, "it is necessary to perform the work to which the indulgence is attached and to fulfill the following three conditions: sacramental confession, Eucharistic Communion, and prayer for the intention of the Sovereign Pontiff. It is further required that all attachment to sin, even venial sin, be absent."
http://www.catholic.org/prayers/indulgc.php
Looks like they're still in place.
“Looks like they’re still in place.”
The Church doesn’t go around handing them out for Internet posts. That’s just insulting.
Even when I was a Catholic I thought it strange to make “prayers” a penance.