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No. The Code of Canon Law states, "To gain indulgences . . . a capable subject must have at least the general intention of acquiring them" (CIC 996).
Can a person gain an indulgence without intending to do so?
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Bulletin Insert format of our <i>Voter's Guide For Serious Catholics</i>.
"The gravest obligation requires the acceptance and practice, not of the religion which one may choose, but of that which God prescribes and which is known by certain and indubitable marks to be the only true one."
~ Leo XIII in his Encyclical Immortale Dei (November 1, 1885); on our fundamenal duty; (from the article Religious Toleration)