purgatories in English

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(in Roman Catholic doctrine) a place or state of suffering inhabited by the souls of sinners who are expiating their sins before going to heaven.
We Catholics believe in the purgatory and the heavens.
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1. Either they hold that Scripture gives room for several opposite theories; or they lean to Universalism, and secretly teach men to trust in future purgatories; or they wholly repudiate and openly denounce and Assail the old missionary doctrine, and believe that they who have 'sinned without law,’ and led impenitent lives under heathen darkness