Buying and selling by any other name is still buying and selling.
It’s just a game of semantics to call it a *donation* for which you got an indulgence for free.
Just like televangelists who offer to send you one of their CD’s or books for *free* when you make a *donation* of $25.
A scam by any other name is still a scam, which is what indulgences were cause nobody can buy salvation or forgiveness with money.
“Buying and selling by any other name is still buying and selling.”
DONATION and receiving even WITHOUT DONATION are still DONATION and receiving WITHOUT DONATION. Thus, there were never any sales of indulgences authorized by the Church.
And you will never post evidence to the contrary. . . because no one has ever found evidence to the contrary.