The reason for bringing this up is to lay the basic premise for Purgatory. In Heaven, we will be perfected and without any attachment to sin: "Nothing impure will enter it [Heaven]." (Revelations ...

What the Catechism of the Catholic Church says on "Purgatory:" 1031. "The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment ...

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Who is the visitor to purgatory that the souls there most long to see? Our Blessed Mother, of course. Our Lady does go there to help souls. Some saints have been shown or told this and they attest ...

The speaker is the Roman poet Virgil, Dante’s companion and guide, in scaling the lofty mountain of Purgatory in the second book of Dante’s tour-de-force account of the afterlife, The Divine ...

The unpalatable truth for the poor dears is that the best they can aspire to is to be Simply The Second Best. Purgatory is their eternal damnation. Now, for those socialised into a worldview defined ...

He “had written on his chest in mercurochrome: Profit by my imminent death to send a greeting to your loved ones in Purgatory.” March remarks: “The Neapolitan passerby grinned and smarted, longing and ...

As Nov. 2, All Souls’ Day, the commemoration of all the faithful departed, nears, we ask the good and merciful Lord to grant to the holy souls in purgatory everlasting life in paradise and ...