I thought the Catholic Church no longer taught Purgatory as an article of faith?
I know a multitude of catholics and people who just say theyre catholic but have done no study of the faith since their tenth year in school - high school
The latter just come up with ideas and rules and stories about how someone told them something
The level of discourse on FR invariably drops to imbecilic when the Church is cited in some anticatholic msm outlet. And the outlet is suddenly treated with honor and respect when it treports on the Church
The catholic church is over two thousand years old. It does not survive and thrive by throwing its dogma around like some stupid country who disregards its founding principles at the whim of a bunch of adolescent thinking men wanting the right to have inconsequential relations with women and pushes an allowance for them to kill the resultant babies
The Church simply does not act like that
Further it does not make up things like purgatory and tell its members what the new thinking on it is. Purgatory is either there pr it is not
Great theologians through the two thousand year history have determined that God has purgatory which purges souls of impurity before inevitably goes to heaven
This stupid CBS report is not intended to inform young people to prayerfully attend. World youth day via the internet
It is meant to get people to make fun of purgatory and the church and to remind people that there was a time of corruption when gullible uninformed lazy wealthy people gave evil men acting like clergy money to get them into heaven