Purgatory

Tim Staples is Director of Apologetics and Evangelization at Catholic Answers. His piece, “What Happens in Purgatory?” is the most read article on the entire website. I ask him to explain what the Catholic Church says (and doesn’t say) about purgatory. How does purgatory work? ...and how about heaven and hell? How should we think about these ‘places’ and about eternity?

• Tim Staple’s profile in Catholic Answers
• Tim Staples’s article, “What Happens in Purgatory?,” in Catholic Answers, July 8, 2021.
• What the Catechism teaches on the subject of purgatory (CCC #1030 – 1032)
• 1 Corinthians 3:11-15

Krzysztof Odyniec is a historian of Medieval and Early Modern Europe; he is also the host of the 'Almost Good Catholics' podcast.