***Your question seems odd to me. I believe in the communion of the saints and do not believe in purgatory. These two things are mutually exclusive.***
The communion of saints is what the Church says it is, not an anonymous poster on FR. Reminds me of an individual that made the statement that he could not accept anything published by the Church in the 4th century or later. Obviously he didn’t realize that the Bible was canonized and the Nicene and Athenasian Creeds were developed after this arbitrary point in time.
***As for Christ descending into hell, certainly there are “Christians” who don’t want to believe it but my mother-in-law went to a Catholic church for years where the priest preached there was no such person as Satan.***
Very odd. Satan exists; he is active and vigilant in the gathering of souls. There are bad Catholics; there are bad priests. Someone should have notified the Bishop; the Bishop really ought to have known, if he was a good one.
Uhhhhhhhhhh
because the communion of the saints is
uhhh
uhhhhhh
pontifical . . .
no, that won’t do . . .
very flexibly historical . . .
no, NO! THAT won’t do . . .
very politically power-mongeringly vetted . . .
NO, NO, NO! THAT WON’T do!
. . . very passed through the August Holy Order of Political Ponderers’ Committee on Selfrighteousness
NO! THAT CERTAINLY WON’T DO!
Uhhhh . . . .
BIBLICAL?
RIGHT! Exactly . . .
And . . . . in this corner . . .
Purgatory . . . AIN’T!
EXACTLY!
Actually, in addition to The Bible, I can’t think of a single Heavenly Visitation that I’ve ever read in 61 years that mentioned purgatory.
I guess it’s one of those pretend dogmas that never quite made it even TO the Pearly Gates, much less passed by the Court of Heaven or THE THRONE!
LOL.