Plenary Indulgence is the full remission of temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.

You can gain a Plenary Indulgence if you receive communion that day, pray 1 Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be for the intentions of the Pope. Not sure if it works with Spiritual Communion.

Plenary Indulgence is the full remission of temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven.

You can gain a Plenary Indulgence if you receive communion that day, pray 1 Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory be for the intentions of the Pope. Not sure if it works with Spiritual Communion.

It probably wouldn't.  The regulations on indulgences are very specific, and plenary indulgences also require one to have been to confession within about 20 days (I interpret this to be in both directions), with the intent of renouncing all attachment to sin, even venial sin.

This said, if one were, for some weighty reason, unable actually to receive communion, but had fulfilled the other conditions, who is to say that Almighty God, in His mercy, might not fully remit temporal punishment?  There's no way to assert that He would not.  We can't know.  
(The same could be said of the confession requirement, if that were morally impossible in a given instance.)

This said, if one were, for some weighty reason, unable actually to receive communion, but had fulfilled the other conditions, who is to say that Almighty God, in His mercy, might not fully remit temporal punishment?  There's no way to assert that He would not.  We can't know. 
(The same could be said of the confession requirement, if that were morally impossible in a given instance.)

Under the above conditions (as in a sick person confined to bed/home) I believe a priest can substitute another act instead.  An SSPX priest I know has done this.

Just a thought, you may not receive plenary indulgences for it, but it will cut your time in Purgatory by offering every single suffering up without complaint along with praying for the holy souls and asking them to pray for you. They get one person praying for them and you get an army. I remember a priest often telling us that someone in your situation has pure gold with what you can offer up and reap in grace from suffering an illness. He also taught us teachers at school that we could offer ever beat of our heart for a Lord have mercy, or I’m sorry, or whatever you want. The same with inhales and exhales. Waste nothing!

Keeping you in my prayers. 🙏🙏🙏

The three best ways to eliminate Purgatory that the Church has given us are:

1. Receive Extreme Unction

I forgot about this.....

Extreme Unction

...Even after a long life of sin, if the Christian receives the Sacrament of the dying with the appropriate dispositions, he will go straight to heaven without having to go to purgatory. - Fr. M. Philipon; This sacrament prepares man for glory immediately, since it is given to those who are departing from this life. - St. Thomas Aquinas; It washes away the sins that remain to be atoned, and the vestiges of sin; it comforts and strengthens the soul of the sick person, arousing in him a great trust and confidence in the divine mercy. Thus strengthened, he bears the hardships and struggles of his illness more easily and resists the temptation of the devil and the heel of the deceiver more readily; and if it be advantageous to the welfare of his soul, he sometimes regains his bodily health. - Council of Trent

Cassini, call a priest and get it done.

Here is my conundrum—and to my thinking this is one of the most personally horrifying aspects of the anti-Papacies:

To the best of my knowledge, every means of gaining plenary indulgences requires that we "pray for the intentions of the Holy Father."

No Holy Father = No plenary indulgences.

If I am wrong on this point, I very much welcome correction. I would very much appreciate knowing that I can gain a plenary indulgence remitting the punishment due my own sins.

I think it is assumed his intentions are the universal intentions of all popes, or what should be.
These intentions are something like: the exaltation of the Church, uprooting of heresies, peace among Christian nations, propagation of the faith, & conversion of sinners.

Anyway, I pray for "the universal intentions of the Pope", and for a holy Pope, and that Pope Leo XIV be converted to Tradition, truth, and the Will of God.

If he's not Pope, that's his problem and God's problem. I'm just trying to fulfill my duty.

Christ didn't look like a miracle working powerful king during His passion, why would the Pope look normal during the Church's passion?

If I am understanding correctly, during periods of sede vacante (whether those papal interregna acknowledged even by the post-conciliar Church, or if the sedevacantists are correct, during much longer ones), the Church's general intentions suffice.  So far as I am aware, the faithful are not debarred from gaining plenary indulgences just because there is no Pope at a given moment in time.

That is my understanding too.  The pope's intentions were always given as the Exaltation of Holy Church, the Extirpation of heresies and Concord among Christian Princes.