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I was raised catholic, went to school there for 8 yrs. Those yrs ending 1975. All those years we were taught purgatory being a place to cleanse our sins until we were pure in order to get to heaven. Thank God we all would leave the catholic and now a saved child of God, through Jesus Christ.

I was RC for 20 years, the rest of my family still is. You technically can buy indulgences for dead loved ones still today actually, they just don't call it that of course. You pay for your loved one to be prayed for on specific days, for the repose of their soul, and the priest is supposedly able to help speed up the process if they are in purgatory. Again, they won't say it so plainly, but they've created processes to mask the transaction of money for supposedly helping your loved one get out of purgatory faster. I SO appreciate that Apologia tackles this topic head on as there are millions of people out there who believe they are Christians and desperately need the TRUE gospel. I can tell you from experience, you don't need to know the true God to be confirmed as a Catholic, you just need to be able to regurgitate the traditions and lines they tell you. When God saved me from that group, I had never even heard of a fair number of books in the Bible. Their organization is not there to bring people closer to our Lord in truth but to share their version and it is not a salvific version, unfortunately.

Thank you brother James for the truth. The gospel gets better every time I hear it, like honey for my soul.

Resting on what Jesus did for a wretch like me. AMEN!!!!!!!!

"The only hand the can grasp the hand of grace, is an empty hand" WOW that stopped me in my tracks

Dr James White is a blessing to the Church

Talk about a slap in the face to God after all he truly accomplished through his life, death, burial and resurrection!!!

I find it extremely interesting how similar the Roman Catholics are to the Pharisees of Jesus’ time. With all their additions to God’s Word, all their own traditions, laws, ideas that are non-existent in the Bible but being more important than clear teachings of Jesus himself. With their supposed heritage the Romans call themselves the only true Church just like those Pharisees claimed to be the sons of Abraham…. It’s truly sad…

What I appreciate about James White has been his careful study of Roman Catholicism particularly the Vatican's interpretation of scripture that is stated in the RC catechism. He has spent thousands of hours studying the Catholic faith including all the debates with Roman Catholic apologists. Tragically the average catholic has no idea what the council of Trent has to say regarding Justification. In fact, many Catholics don't even read the bible, and that is why they are so dependent on the priest for spiritual nourishment or the lack thereof. Other than marriage, the rest of the sacraments are form of bondage. Without the priesthood the foundation of Roman Catholicism falls like a house of cards.

Thank you DrWhite for your faithfulness. I watched the debate and was saddened on how hopeless the catholic teachings are. This message you just gave is the true hope we have in Our Savior Jesus Christ.

I'm only 15 minutes in. But, ugh, these Catholic teachings are so insulting to Jesus and His sacrifice! Why did He even bother? And why don't people just open their Bibles?!

In addition to biblical literacy classes, I honestly think we need basic reading comprehension classes. I'm saying this seriously. People these days don't seem to know that context is crucial when you are reading anything. Nor do they seem able to follow a train of thought, whether it's spoken or written. They can't even speak in coherent manner. Many people don't even know what a question is, or how to ask one. How do I know that? Because I do transcription for work. I hear the way people speak and how they respond to instructions and questions. It's absolutely maddening. If people are incapable of reading/understanding regular books (that is, if they read books at all!) how can we expect them to understand God's Word? How often do we see people who have been professing Christians for decades/been in church for decades and they still take verses completely out of context? Do they also take a book of the shelf, open it anywhere, and expect to understand what's going on? Why do they treat the Bible that way? It's maddening. People are becoming more illiterate by the day.

Dr. White has done his homework. We do indeed have peace through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Beautiful message, Dr. White

Hell burns with Charcoal, but Purgatory burns with Natural Gas.

This was a wonderful sermon! I learned some things! Many thanks Dr. White!

1 Corinthians 3 tells us about the Judgement of a man's work, which either abide or be burned. If the work abide, the man shall receive a reward. Whereas if the work is burned, then the man shall suffer loss, but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

God said to love my enemies so I loved myself. Jesus loves me and he loves you too.

Tks😄❤️🙏✝️🇨🇦

Jesus founded the Catholic Church. Brothers and sisters please dig deep. The truth will set you free. May the Holy Spirit will guide you to the truth. God bless you all.

Begins at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="172">2:52</a>

The dialogue with Horn on the Allie Beth Stuckey show won't be on her "Relatable" podcast show, but will be behind a Daily Wire paywall under a new show named "Debatable", is what I heard Allie on one of her shows around the time of that dialogue. I was very disappointed!

I can’t help wondering how Catholics aren’t terrified that the treasury of merit from the Saints might run out before they get to purgatory…

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="60">1:00</a>:00 does severing from Christ ( Galatians <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="304">5:4</a>) mean withdrawal of Justification ?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="455">7:35</a> "Purgatory is not a second chance place" Good on James White for getting this part right. I've seen a lot of Protestants get this incredibly wrong, issuing warnings to Catholics that Purgatory doesn't exist, as though the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory made the Catholic afterlife less severe. It absolutely doesn't! The Catholic Church actually has a narrower path to stay out of Hell (faith *plus works,* you know), and Purgatory is a place where the winners go. You *want* to get into Purgatory. Sure, it's better to make it directly into Heaven, but this is often seen as a rare accomplishment. Purgatory at least means you'll get to Heaven eventually and that you've avoided the fate of most, Hell. And, while being an unbeliever definitely (at least, traditionally) lands you in Hell, sincere believers also end up in Hell all the time. Any mortal sin (and these can be rather commonplace actions) will damn any believer.

I have heard many try to defend purgatory by saying it is a final purification or cleansing before entering heaven and that it is not a payment for sin. However, I have always considered the idea that you can do something on behalf of someone who is dead as a stark contradiction to the position they are trying to defend. Even if no money is involved, how would something like taking part in a mass on behalf of a deceased loved one be of benefit to them? If purgatory is only a cleansing, then surely this would be a bit like taking a shower on behalf of someone else to help them get clean from playing in the mud all day. The very fact that indulgences exist means that purgatory is about paying for sin. Which of course is in complete contradiction to the gospel, grace and the work Christ did on the cross.

Catholic hater thread. Proud Catholic here and love to all my Protestant brothers and sisters.

You can't buy indulgences? My poor aunt bought many indulgences for my uncle, many Catholic masses for him to hasten his time in purgatory.

​@Are_You_Sure_Bro For some reason my responses aren't posting. In response to your comment: I think God's word is very authoritative and also infallible. However, the doctrine of sola scriptura is self-defeating because it can't even meet the very standard it tries to set. Proponents of sola scriptura, like yourself, would state that if something is not found in scripture, then it is a false doctrine. But the ironic thing about that is the concept of sola scriptura is found nowhere in the bible. In fact, the man-made doctrine of sola scriptura was unknown to Christianity for over 1,500 years. At the end of the day, the doctrine of sola scriptura isn't actually about viewing scripture as the final authority, it's about the individual viewing their self-interpretation of scripture as the final authority. Scripture, in and of itself, will do nothing without an intelligence to try and decipher it. The Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura encourages a "what I want to believe" mindset when approaching your faith. This is why we see so many different denominations and so many different beliefs within Protestantism. Everyone is just looking for "their truth." Some people with church hop until they feel like they found a church that interprets scripture the way they want it to be interpreted. If they can't, they just call themselves "non-denominational." Catholicism, on the other hand, encourages a "what I ought to believe" mindset. It asks its faithful to have a submission of will and an ascent of faith. It encourages the individual to accept the truth rather than "their truth." Now, I'll leave it up to you to decide if a "what I want to believe" mindset, or a "what I ought to believe" mindset seems more Christ-like, but I think you already know the answer.

So if as a Catholic one can confess their sins, say a few hail Marys and receive absolution, then why can't they do the same in purgatory?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1816">30:16</a> Dr. White calls out Kenneth Copeland

To my catholic friends: If we've been born again, isn't God's law in our hearts/ minds? (Jeremiah 31, Romans 7, 8) Do we not seek to do His will? But sin is in our flesh and we struggle. "In my mind I'm a slave to Christ, but in my sinful nature a slave to sin." (Romans <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="445">7:25</a>) Does our body of sin go to purgatory??? And haven't we also been crucified with Christ? "I've been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me." (Galatians <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="140">2:20</a>) And also, we know that we have the righteousness of Christ applied to us, like Abraham, for he "believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness." (Romans <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="243">4:3</a>) How then do we go to purgatory- and for what? "Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will never count against him, whose sins are covered." (Romans <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="247">4:7</a>, 8. Psalm 32) edit* ps. I just learned that the catholic church do not believe Christ's righteousness is imputed to Believers. So, it nullifies one of my sentences here, I guess. May I suggest you disregard them and read Romans and see for yourselves. It couldn't be more clear. Whom will you believe?

Since this comment section will soon have lots of nonsense assertions, here's one more: Martin Luther and Michael Brown appeared at the foot of my bed playing Saxophones. 🎷 the must have made up and are friends now.

If purgatory is a false doctrine because it doesn't meet the standard set by sola scriptura, doesn't that mean sola scriptura is also a false doctrine? Sola scriptura can't even meet the very standard it sets.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2040">34:00</a> It that great exchange secure? I mean, it is reversible? Or you are forever, thanks God with Christ?

Why Protestants reject purgatory comes from double imputation concept as taught by the Reformers. They taught that through faith alone we get Christ' righteousness imputed on us as external/alien righteousness while ALL our sins (past, present and EVEN FUTURE ones) are imputed/counted on Christ who was punished by God for those sins on the cross. We are counted/declared as righteous while we remain unrighteous. Christ was counted as sinner while He remained sinless. Under double imputation concept of the Reformers Catholic teaching on purgatory, penance, and indulgences add what Christ already did on the cross, violating solus Christus, one of the five sola's. The first question: is double imputation scriptural? Eze. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1100">18:20</a> says the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself and the wickedness of the Wicked shall be upon himself. This verse says that neither righteousness nor wickedness can be transferred from one person to another, which is what double imputation implies. Catholics do believe in infusion of righteousness as Dr. White said in the video. Through infusion we are made righteous as Scripture says in Rom. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="319">5:19</a> "through Him we are made righteous". According to Scripture we lose righteousness through sinning. Eze. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1992">33:12</a>-13 says: " righteous shall not be able to live by his righteousness when he sins. Though I say to the righteous that he shall surely live, yet if he trusts in his righteousness and does injustice, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered, but in his injustice that he has done he shall die." This the scriptural reason why Catholics believe that our sins must be forgiven/washed away after repenting and why we believe in purgatory. Scripture also says in 1 John <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="316">5:16</a>-17 there area deadly (mortal) sins and non-deadly (venial) sins. What we must do when we sin is stated in Eze. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1994">33:14</a>-16 (emphasis in capital is mine): "Again, though I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' yet IF HE TURNS FROM HIS SIN AND DOES WHAT IS JUST AND RIGHT, if the wicked restores the pledge, gives back what he has taken by robbery, and walks in the statutes of life, not doing injustice, HE SHALL SURELY LIVE; he shall not die. None of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him. He has done what is just and right; he shall surely live." Based on the above verses Catholics believe that when we sin grace of God will move and enable us to turn from sin (repent) AND to do what is just and right, in order to be back to life (in righteous state in Catholic terminology). "Doing what is just and right" is known in Catholic teaching as temporal punishment, to which the concept penance and indulgences are based. Scripture refers God as refiner’s fire and fuller’s soap (Mal. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="182">3:2</a>) - both have something to do with refining and cleansing. Zec. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="788">13:8</a>-9 says God put some into fire as one refines silver and test gold - the word purgatory is not mentioned but the concept is.

I watched the debate and the comment James makes at the beginning of this video about Trent Horn saying Paul was wrong about eschatology actually happened. I had to pause the video for a bit to recover.

James White does not decide what is truth and what is right. He is fully convinced that he is right about everything. His mind is completely closed off to other perspectives.

As a Catholic, and former protestant… whats ironic is that Dr. White today would have to debate Calvin 🙊

Sola Scriptura is not in the Bible either, interestingly.

And so is the hellfire doctrine and the inherent immortality of the soul teaching.

Mr james white, you better read the book of the apostolic fathers first

So is tbe man priest in a box listening to your sins, selling them

HADES Is it Purgatory ? >>>> Hades is not fiction, but biblical. Read Luke <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="983">16:23</a>; IN HADES, BEING IN TORMENT. So what is fictional ? The Catholic version and their imagination is non-biblical, a wrong or distorted understanding of the Sacred Writings. Why not we examine? ✅ Were the Apostles clean ? Were they Saints,the Sanctified Ones ? John <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="790">13:10</a>-11; The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean >>> Jn <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="903">15:3</a>; ALREADY YOU ARE CLEAN because of the word that I have spoken to you >>> ✍️ How did they became Clean ? Jn <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1026">17:6</a>; they have kept your word Jn <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1027">17:7</a>; For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.>>>> The Apostles believed the Scripture, they believed the word that Jesus had spoken, they received them and they kept your word (word of God) >>> If anyone does as the Apostles did, they will also become clean >>>> Acts <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="332">5:32</a>; the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him >>>> That is the reason, the Apostle Paul wrote; >>> Eph <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="318">5:18</a>; be filled with the Spirit >>> Gal <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="259">4:19</a>; Christ is formed in you >>>>>Rom <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="490">8:10</a>-11; if Christ is in you,... although the body is dead because of sin..... If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you. Can you receive Spirit of Truth, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God after Ones Death. What goes to Hades, the Body or the Soul or the Spirit ? Eccl <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="727">12:7</a>; the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it >>> What happens to the Soul of Man ? Does Man has a Soul ? Ezek <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1100">18:20</a>; The soul who sins shall die >>> Who owns the human Soul ? Ezek <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1084">18:4</a>; Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die >>> Who can destroy your Soul ? >>> Mat <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="628">10:28</a>; do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell >>>The Judgment Day, is at the end of the Ages. Until then, the departed Souls of the unrighteous, unholy, are they not kept in Hades ? Luke 16; teaches us so. >>> There is no Atonement and forgiveness of Sins after death.. The Bible teaches us very clearly that, once the Soul has left the human body, there is neither repentance, Faith, obedience to faith and forgiveness of Sins. >>>> Ps 8<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="490">8:10</a>-12; Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon? Are your wonders known in the darkness, or YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS (Christ Jesus) in the land of forgetfulness? ✅ Your Soul need to receive the Holy Spirit for the Sanctification of the Spirit and for the Purification of the Soul, i.e. before death and without God granting repentance, you will not receive it. How can a man/woman obey Lord Yeshua, after he/she dies ? >>>>> Why not we examine the Sacred Writings rather than listening to False teaching ? >>>> Acts <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="158">2:38</a>; Peter said to them, “REPENT and BE BAPTIZED every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit >>>>> 2 Timothy <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="145">2:25</a>; God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth >>> Acts <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="332">5:32</a>; the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him. WHO ARE THOSE WHO RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEIR SOUL ? They are the Saints, (the Holy Ones) >>>>Ps 8<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="545">9:5</a>; Let the heavens praise your wonders, O LORD, your faithfulness in the assembly of the holy ones! >>> wHO ARE THE SAINTS, THE HOLY ONES ? >>> Those whose Spirit is Sanctified, made Holy, having purified their Souls for obedience to Truth. Those Souls do not go to Hades, because they repented, believed and obeyed the Gospel, and have received forgiveness of your sins, and had received the gift of the Holy Spirit. But not all have Faith nor have obeyed the Gospel and have preserved their Souls. >>> Romans <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="616">10:16</a>; But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us? >>> Hebrews <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="639">10:39</a>; we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls >>>> 1 Peter <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="82">1:22</a>-23; Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again >>>>> The Souls had been set free from Sin by the Son of God (John <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="516">8:36</a>;) HOW SHALL WE TAKE THIS TEACHING ABOUT PURGATORY? >>>> 1 Timothy <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="241">4:1</a>-2; The Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and TEACHINGS OF DEMONS, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared >>>>>1 Timothy <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="66">1:6</a>-7; Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident assertions. >>>>> Colossians <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="138">2:18</a>-19; LET NO ONE DISQUALIFY YOU, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, GOING ON IN DETAIL ABOUT VISIONS, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind.>>>> Ezek <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="787">13:7</a>-8; Have you not seen a false vision and uttered a lying divination, whenever you have said, ‘Declares the LORD,’ although I have not spoken?” Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because YOU HAVE UTTERED falsehood and seen LYING VISIONS, therefore behold, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE HUMAN SOUL THAT HAS NOT SINNED ? >>> Revelation <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="369">6:9</a>; When he opened the fifth seal, I SAW under the altar THE SOULS of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the witness they had borne >>>> Revelation <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1204">20:4</a>-6; I SAW THE SOUL’S of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. THEY CAME TO LIFE and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. ....OVER SUCH THE SECOND DEATH HAS NO POWER, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years. WHO OWNS YOUR SOUL. DOES YOUR SOUL SIN AGAINST GOD ? >>> Ezekiel <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1084">18:4</a>,20; Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die IS SATAN FIGHTING FOR YOUR SOUL TO TAKE IT DOWN THE PIT TO SHEOL?>>>> Ephesians <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="371">6:11</a>-12; the schemes of the devil. For WE DO NOT WRESTLE AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places >>>>> 1 Peter <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="251">4:11</a>; which WAGE WAR AGAINST YOUR SOUL. WHERE DOES THE SOUL THAT SINNED GO ? Pay close attention to what Abraham tells the rich man as recorded in Luke’s Gospel ? >>> Luke <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="983">16:23</a>; IN HADES, BEING IN TORMENT, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off >>>Luke <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="986">16:26</a>; Besides all this, between us and you A GREAT CHASM HAS BEEN FIXED, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and NONE MAY CROSS FROM THERE to us >>> Luke <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="990">16:30</a>-31; And he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but IF SOMEONE GOES TO THEM from the dead, they will repent.’ He said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’” WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE SOULS IN HADES ? Do they get forgiveness of sins by the prayers of others, without they repenting during their life time ? >>> Revelation <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1205">20:5</a>; The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended >>>> Revelation <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1214">20:14</a>; DEATH and HADES GAVE UP THE DEAD who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades WERE THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH, the lake of fire. The Son of God came to give us knowledge about God (1 John <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="320">5:20</a>;) >>> The Bible is very clear.>>> Hebrew <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="626">10:26</a>-27; For if we go on SINNING DELIBERATELY AFTER RECEIVING THE KNOWLEDGE of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.>>>>> Therefore; LET NO ONE DISQUALIFY YOU.WITH VISIONS OF PURGATORY. Mathew <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1444">24:4</a>,25; Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray...See, I have told you beforehand >>>> > May the Lord give you knowledge and insight, let your Soul be lighted with the light [Lord Yeshua ] of life {Job <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2010">33:30</a>;} that your Soul and Body is (Resurrection of the unjust Acts <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1455">24:15</a>;) is not thrown into the Lake of Fire, which is the Second Death. Finally, what theology or doctrine is required for anyone to believe in Lord Yeshua and to obey Lord Yeshua ? Do you need to be Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical, Pentecostal for keeping the commandments of God and to believe and obey Lord Yeshua? >>> Do you require Pope, Patriarch,Bishops,priests, pastors for keeping the commandments of God and for believing and obeying the Gospel of Lord Yeshua Messiah and for observing all that Lord Yeshua commanded us to observe? Is it not all the whole duty of man?

Purgatory makes a mockery of Jesus sacrifice.

coping from the Trent Horn L

Calvinism is fiction.

😂😂 damage control from white continues. 3 Ls in a row

Agent of Satan

Purgatory is Scriptural. Martin Luther removed it from the Bible. If you commit a mortal sin, there is no temporal punishment. You go straight to hell. Although all your sins are forgiven, the soul is wounded and offended, and cannot enter heaven until the soul has been perfectly purified. The punishment in Purgatory is the temporary exclusion from God which the soul longs for.

The fact that this pagan polytheist has people sitting and listening to him is truly frightening

Hell is just as much of a Catholic invention as purgatory