If he is Blessed, he will find out the truth of Purgatory one day.
Exactly what do you mean by that? Do you refer to someone who, using their God-given intelligence, has a question(s) about Catholic teaching? If so, why does that make you a sucker?
Here's a personal experience: Due to a week spent on a very disturbing and serious marital problem, through no fault of either party, by the following Sunday my emotions could not be turned off like a faucet. As a result, I was not in a mental state to go to Mass, although by then the problem had been discussed, though could not really be changed.
I did not attend Mass that day, and the following Sunday, because of my 12 years of Catholic school teaching, I had no right to receive Communion.
Then I got angry at my Church which imposed such rigid rules on me. I COULD have MADE myself attend Mass but excused myself and now I had to confess my "sin" in order to receive Communion again.
I object to confession of sins to another human being. I've been more relaxed by not going than when I suffered with that obligation. That's a subject I'll reserve for another time.
When the Philadelphia priest scandal involving the abuse of boys was published recently, one worker in the city responded to a media question by saying, "If I went to confession, I would say to the confessor, "You first. You tell me what you've done wrong and then I'll tell you about my sins". Or something very close to that.
Was this an arrogant statement? Did this man have no justifiable reason for his comment?
The pastor of my daughter's parish, which I attended for months, pushed confession constantly to his parishioners. Before Mass, just about anytime he was available. The sad story emerged after the grand jury investigation in Phila., Pa, that he had worked in the Archdiocese before becoming pastor of their church, and had gone along with the policies of the Cardinal at the time, approving the moving of sexually abusive priests to other parishes. This pastor will no longer return to his parish. I'm sure many of his parishioners admired him before this. No goodbyes. He is just one of many. I'm sorry for him but I have to have more sorrow for the victims of priest abuse, and their families. These families trusted their priests!
I expect some kind of defense in response to what I've written, but I do believe that those who are not in total sync with your beliefs have valid grounds to disagree with you.
Does the Catholic Church require: we must have blind faith, we cannot question anything the Church decides, based on their interpretation of Scripture, and on the six commandments of the Church, on dogmas of faith, and on telling us we are damned to hell if we miss Mass on Sunday or a Holyday of Obligation?
Jesus never said we are destined for hell if we did not go to Mass on All Saints Day, Nov. 1st, e.g. Do you really believe that to be true? Please, if you can, show me where I'm off the track.
While of prime importance in my teenage years, today I view it as ridiculous.