Purgatory is not some portion of the punishment that is hell. It is the sweet completion of what began under the sun.

Q: In an earlier column, you said that purgatory was a state outside of time and that we can't talk about how long someone spends in purgatory in terms of years. But then why do you sometimes see ...

The doctrinal grounding of Dante’s mysterious mountain. Dante was the first writer to draw an elaborate map of Mount Purgatory, but he did not invent it. The idea of a place between death and heaven, ...

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For the last nine years or so, Damien Crawford has been making games they don’t think people would want to play. Crawford is the sole developer and head of Cannibal Interactive. They’ve made over 20 ...