Yes, I read it; it is written on my heart. James contradicts what you write. I will stick with the Scripture, all of it, instead of Martin Luther or John Calvin. Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Because faith without works is a dead faith.
Read it however you will. If you stick with all scripture, you'd best be figuring out how to reconcile Ephesians 2:8-10, all of Romans, Galatians, and more to one misinterpreted (By the fallible men of the Magesterium, as well as fallible popes) passage in James.
None of which, by the way, demonstrates biblical proof of purgatory. Which, after all, is what the thread is about.
Dead faith isn’t really faith at all is it. As James said, “I will show you my faith by my works” which indicates a living faith. James didn’t say the living faith didn’t save. He said that a living faith exhibited by works that it is indeed a living faith is what saves. He confirmed that by saying “I will show you my faith by my works. Man can have works without faith but it will not save him. Man cannot have saving faith without works but it’s not the works that saves.