Stupid things religious people say

[Fake Messiah]

Here is some wisdom from my favorite consecrated virgin and a canonist, Jenna M. Cooper, who already had an honor to be in this topic before.

Is there any way to know how long a person might be in purgatory?

It is entirely possible that a person may still be in purgatory 20 years after their death, or even longer. I am reminded of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, where one of the visionaries reported that Our Lady told her that a recently deceased teenager from their village would be in purgatory until the end of the world!

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So there you have it, my dear Catholics: you never know if your deceased family member is still in purgatory, so you better pay for church masses for them at least once a year to get them out of there. Capisce, bitches?

I just wanted to further comment on this stance by the church that a deceased person can be in purgatory "until the end of the world" and how it just happens to play financially for the church.

Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, who died 500 years ago, is a perfect example of a person who took this seriously because he built a very expensive chapel for his corpse that would cost millions of pounds in today's money, plus he paid for 5000 masses to be performed for him—which he thought would be enough until the end of the world. Needless to say, it would be much more useful if those millions of British pounds were spent on the living—like the poor medieval peasants.

Here's a clip from a BBC doc about him and his chapel. It's on Dailymotion, so it's in hide tags because it starts automatically.

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