Comments on: Rome’s Purgatory Museum: A November Pilgrimage

By: Astrid

Astrid — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:08:00 +0000

Sins can indeed be forgiven when forgiveness is asked for. Otherwise … they won’t be. The gift of free will, which most Protestant sects deny, is the key to believing in hell. Those in hell exercized their free will and disobeyed God, and once they die in that state, everything good is taken from them, and they go to Hell, where there is no love, nor repentance - only wrath and regret. Disobedience to God, Who is infinitely good and perfect, justly deserves an infinite and perfect punishment, does it not?

Why should an imprint of a hand made by a soul in Purgatory be as anatomically correct as a Michelangelo to be believable? Maybe God prefers medieval art to the Renaissance because it’s more humble.

By: Chappy2506

Chappy2506 — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:30:00 +0000

You can twist the words if you choose to, but the bible tells us that all sins can be forgiven and that God is mercifull, so therefore hell, a place of ETERNAL suffering cannot coexist with this belief. I can accept though that a place like Purgatory can exist, where this forgiveness can be granted. But these “relics” are clearly fake. The handprint is not even anatomically correct.

By: Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.

Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:05:00 +0000

Joel,

It’s not a matter of “labels”; it’s a matter of being united to Jesus Christ through his Mystical Body, the Church. That Church is the Catholic Church.

http://catholicism.org/church-of-history.html

By: Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.

Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M. — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:02:00 +0000

Joel,

Please see here some arguments for Purgatory:

http://catholicism.org/proving-purgatory.html

Thank you.

By: Finton Wade

Finton Wade — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:38:00 +0000

I believe that souls can communicate in the land of the living. God is great and He can do anything He wants when He wants and to who He wants. Even bring the dead from Purgatory.

By: antoon meert

antoon meert — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:01:11 +0000

De in het Museo del Purgatorio tentoongestelde voorwerpen kunnen ofwel als een objectieve werkelijkheid ofwel als een subjectieve “wishfull thinking” worden geïnterpreteerd.
Abstractie makend van elk dogmatisme is in dit geval niet het tentoongestelde voorwerp dat relevant is maar wel het ervaringsstandpunt dat de bezoeker van het Museo t.o.v. van een tentoongesteld voorwerp kan innemen.
De afstand tussen het voorwerp en de interpretatie van dit voorwerp
is dikwijls groot en daarom moeten wij dat laatste ook als een “andere” werkelijkheid aanzien.

By: Brother André Marie

Brother André Marie — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:00:25 +0000

Dear Claudia,

The error you advance has been condemned by the true Church. The following article refutes the idea that the dead who die in Christ have no interest in, or knowledge of, the living:

http://catholicism.org/praying-to-saints.html

By: Claudia Cavazos

Claudia Cavazos — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:01:50 +0000

this is very interesting How could the dead come back and leave signs in the bible its states For the living know that they will die,
but the dead know nothing;
they have no further reward,
and even the memory of them is forgotten.

6 Their love, their hate
and their jealousy have long since vanished;
never again will they have a part
in anything that happens under the sun

the dead never come back to the living world they have no knowledge of it anymore there only in the spirtual world heaven or purgatory or the other bad place.

By: Kathleen Nurt

Kathleen Nurt — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:33:40 +0000

This is facinating. At first I wondered if it were demonic entities posing as these people but then it occured to me that they would not request masses to be said for them. The story of the one man’s conversion and organizing the pious laity congregation is also persuasive and that he died in the oudor of sactity. Is he a Blessed or a Saint? Is there a sense of holiness in this museum? I have felt a strong sense of holiness at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Cloisters Museum in the Bronx in NYC where there is a large collection of holy artifacts such as reliqueries, altar pieces, crucifexes, and devotionals.

By: Brother André Marie

Brother André Marie — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:20:24 +0000

@ Dan: True enough, souls in Purgatory are bodiless. However, if angels (pure spirits) can interact with matter, why can’t disembodied spirits? In these cases, it seems that God has allowed them to communicate for the edification of the faithful. I am not aware of any such phenomenon that the Church has formally approved. But many miracles are related in the lives of the saints that the Church has not bothered to investigate formally.