did the pope say anything about changing purgetory?

Question

ive heard some stuff just wonderin if anyone had some real stuff on it, i heard they are getting rid of the concept of purgetory

Answer 1

No.

They were talking about Limbo not Purgatory.

+ Limbo +

The Church has pondered the suggestion of Limbo for a few hundred years and has decided that it is not a good idea. Limbo was never official doctrine.

Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved." (Mark 16:15-16)

For centuries, people have wondered about children who died before they were baptized. The Bible does not explicitly state that they will go to heaven.

Limbo was suggested as the place where unbaptized babies went when they died. This idea was never official Church doctrine and has been rejected.

The Church now says that it is not sure what happens to unbaptized babies when they die but she entrusts them to the mercy of God.

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt2sect2.htm#1261

+ Purgatory +

Catholics believe in Purgatory.

Are you perfect now? Most people would say no.

Will you be perfect in heaven? Most people believe yes.

Purgatory (or purgation) is the process of God's love changing our imperfect selves into perfect beings.

Depending on the amount of change needed by different people this can be an easy or slightly harder process.

Everyone in purgatory is on their way to heaven.

I don't think Mother Teresa of Calcutta had a very hard time of it.

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect2chpt3art12.htm#1030

+ With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Nope, that was Limbo--they were just playing with that idea, but shelved it.

Purgetory was confirmed in visions by Mary, as recorded in THE THUNDER OF JUSTICE, a compilation of Maryian revelations.

Actually, Benedicts predecessor is still there. As I figure it, he worked for a Polish chemical company and sold Zyglon B gas to kill jews. Figure 6,000,000 jews, and one year sentence in Purgetory for each Jew, That will be a long time in the toaster.

Actually, Luther, the reformer, says "immortality of the soul is one part of Rome's dunghill of decretals." You can learn more as you break a Bible code at www.revelado.org/revealed.htm

Blessings, One-Way

Answer 3

No. Purgatory is an official teaching of the church. Nothing on the doctrine of purgatory has been changed.

Limbo is not and never was an official teaching of the Church.

Many Catholics believed that limbo is where unborn, still born and unbaptized infants went. They could not go to heaven because of original sin, but they had no personal sin so they weren't deserving of hell...so it became limbo. But the Pope recently reiterated that this was never an official teaching of the Church and we really do not know where the souls of these babies go. We do know, however, that God is a loving God and we can only trust that these babies are in a place a loving God would have them be.

Answer 4

Well Redeemed, I do not think that one can find out what Catholics belive by going to a anti-Catholic website. That is probably the last place one would find the truth about Catholicism.

I think that you are speaking of Limbo and not purgatory. Limbo was theological speculation that babies who died without Baptism would go to a place free of suffering.

Purgatory is not theological speculation but a biblically supported fact. Matthew 12:32

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 5

Purgatory will always exist. It's the only way you can get to Heaven, by being perfected in Purgatory. So, no, the Pope is not, has not, and most likely never will change Purgatory.

Answer 6

why would they? we are told in the bible that some sins will be forgiven in this life and some in the next. we are told they will be tested with fire....
purgatory is just a word for the above concepts. no one has a first hand knowledge of how long this process takes and what one will go through when standing before the judgement of God - that is purgatory.

Answer 7

He needs to get rid of it. It is not to be found in scripture, and it weakens power of the atoning death of Jesus Christ. If you believe in purgatory then you believe that the blood of Christ is not able to wash away all our sins - you have to go somewhere and be literally whipped into shape. I can't imagine God or angels torturing believers until they are sin-less. Of truth all the beatings in the world will not remove sin from the flesh.

In addition, what about the resurrected sin-free bodies that believers will have? Doesn't those incorruptible bodies make purgatory unnecessary?

Answer 8

John Paul II made quite a few radical amendments to Roman dogma, he abolished 'Hell', for example, in 1999, as I understand it Lucifer is still in session with his lawyers trying to work out if they have a case for squatters rights.

I have not read of any specific major variation of the Purgatory concept other than this somewhat cryptic conclusion to the audience in which J-P II put 'Hell' on a rail out of town :

"Following our catechesis on the reality of heaven and hell, today we consider "Purgatory", the process of purification for those who die in the love of God but who are not completely imbued with that love."

See all at the url below.

Answer 9

purgetory was formed by the Catholic Church for money in the early millenia( forgot when) It was just a form for people to pay the church to get out of purgetory.

Answer 10

The Catholic Church did get rid of the concept of Limbo. but i haven't heard anything about pergatory. I doubt it b/c so many people cling to the idea of pergatory and the Church is pretty conservative right now...