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#22 Bishop Robert Barron - Seeking Meaning, Finding God?

Within Reason

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Is There a Scriptural Biblical Basis for Purgatory?

Christopher Hitchens once described purgatory as a disposal problem I think he saw it as this idea of having an intuition that there are people who die in particular. The Catholic church has held at certain points in history most recently it kind of suspended that and said no we entrust let's say a a board a child or you know an infant child to the mercy of God and we leave it at that so that's closer to limbo than purgatory because purgatory is being readied for heaven.

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