Purgatory
Definition
“Purgatory (Lat., purgare, to make clean, to purify) in accordance with catholic teaching is a place or condition of temporal punishment for those who, departing this life in God’s grace, are not entirely free from venial faults, or have not fully paid the satisfaction due to their transgressions…. The souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful, but principally by the acceptable sacrifice of the altar,” (The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XII) A false doctrine.
Origin
“Whatever the views of some church fathers on the subject, as a doctrine [purgatory] was unknown in the Christian Church for the first 600 years, and it does not appear to have been made an article of faith until the 10th century…, ‘Purgatory as a burning-away of sins,’ said Doellinger at the Bonn Conference of Old Catholics in 1875, ‘was an idea unknown in the East as well as the West till Gregory the Great [pope 595-604] introduced it. … Gregory the Great added the idea of a tormenting fire.'” (McClintock and Strong’s Cyclopaedia, Volume VIII, 1879 edition) Nowhere in any catholic Bible translation is “purgatory” named. No Scripture text makes mention of a soul in “purgatory”.
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