Purgatory

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                    [Title] => Italy’s Museum of Souls in Purgatory beckons one to change while it’s still not too late
                    [Summary] => Stuff you think you'd only see in 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!'
                    [DatePublished] => 2024-03-29 04:26:00
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                    [AuthorID] => 1804924
                    [AuthorName] => Deni Rose M. Afinidad-Bernardo
                    [SectionName] => Travel and Tourism
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                    [Title] => The driver who went to heaven and the priest who went to purgatory
                    [Summary] => This a true story, embellished with some fiction and hyperbole, and a liberal dose of figures of speech.
                    [DatePublished] => 2019-09-07 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 136164
                    [Focus] => 1
                    [AuthorID] => 1148718
                    [AuthorName] => Atty. Josephus Jimenez
                    [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion
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                    [Title] => Two pictures of purgatory
                    [Summary] => November is the month in which we remember our dead. For Catholics it is not mere remembrance. As the Bible puts it, "It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins." (2 Maccabees 12.45)


Shakespeare paints a frightening picture of purgatory. The dead King’s ghost says to his son the Prince Hamlet:


I am thy father’s ghost


Doom’d for a certain time to walk the night,


And for the day confin’d to fast in fires


Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature


                    [DatePublished] => 2006-11-10 00:00:00
                    [ColumnID] => 133160
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                    [AuthorID] => 1804677
                    [AuthorName] => Fr. Miguel A. Bernad, SJ
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Italy’s Museum of Souls in Purgatory beckons one to change while it’s still not too late

By Deni Rose M. Afinidad-Bernardo | March 29, 2024 - 4:26am

Stuff you think you'd only see in 'Ripley's Believe It or Not!'

Travel and Tourism

The driver who went to heaven and the priest who went to purgatory

By Atty. Josephus Jimenez | September 7, 2019 - 12:00am

This a true story, embellished with some fiction and hyperbole, and a liberal dose of figures of speech.

Freeman Opinion

Two pictures of purgatory

By AT RANDOM | By Fr. Miguel A. Bernad, SJ | November 10, 2006 - 12:00am

November is the month in which we remember our dead. For Catholics it is not mere remembrance. As the Bible puts it, "It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their...

Opinion

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