“It is the Blood of the Lamb that cleans us
What makes you think Msgr. Pope or anyone familiar with the teachings of the Holy Church disagrees with that?”
Purgatory - a totally invented doctrine with no basis in scripture, and utterly unknown to the Apostles.
“Purgatory (Lat., “purgare”, to make clean, to purify) in accordance with Catholic teaching is a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God’s grace, are, not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions...
...The whole penitential system of the Church testifies that the voluntary assumption of penitential works has always been part of true repentance and the Council of Trent (Sess. XIV, can. xi) reminds the faithful that God does not always remit the whole punishment due to sin together with the guilt. God requires satisfaction, and will punish sin, and this doctrine involves as its necessary consequence a belief that the sinner failing to do penance in this life may be punished in another world, and so not be cast off eternally from God.”
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12575a.htm
I Corinthians 3:11-15. Do you deny the judgment of God?
It’s still Jesus our Lord and Savior Who cleanses us of all sin, regardless of time and place.
What’s totally invented here is the notion that Purgatory is not an instrument of grace.