Pope Encourages Idolatry for Indulgences by Mike Gendron (Proclaiming the Gospel Newsletter - Jan 2017)
Pope Francis will grant plenary indulgences throughout the 100th anniversary year of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. He gave three ways to obtain the indulgence: 1) visit the shrine in Portugal, 2) pray before any statue of Our Lady of Fatima, 3) pray in front of a statue of Our Lady of Fatima and "spiritually unite themselves" to the jubilee celebrations on the 13th of each month between May and October.
In other words, the pope is telling Catholics that they must commit the sin of idolatry in order to receive remission for temporal punishment of their sins. The Ten Commandments expressly forbid the worship or veneration of images, "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them" (Exodus 20:4, 5).
See: Are apparitions of Mary, such as Lady Fatima, true messages from God? - GotQuestions