God forgave the incredulity of Moses and Aaron, but in punishment kept them from the “land of promise” (Num., xx, 12). God indeed brought man out of his first disobedience and gave him power to govern all things (Wis., x, 2), but still condemned him “to eat his bread in the sweat of his brow” until he returned unto dust. That temporal punishment is due to sin, even after the sin itself has been pardoned by God, is clearly the teaching of Scripture. Further than this the definitions of the Church do not go, but the tradition of the Fathers and the Schoolmen must be consulted to explain the teaching of the councils, and to make clear the belief and the practices of the faithful. ii, iii) that there is a purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful, but principally by the acceptable Sacrifice of the Altar the Holy Synod enjoins on the Bishops that they diligently endeavor to have the sound doctrine of the Fathers in Councils regarding purgatory everywhere taught and preached, held and believed by the faithful” (Denzinger, “Enchiridion”, 983). XXV) defined: “Whereas the Catholic Church, instructed by the Holy Ghost, has from the Sacred Scriptures and the ancient tradition of the Fathers taught in Councils and very recently in this ecumenical synod (Sess. 1031), and in the decree of the Council of Trent which (Sess. The faith of the Church concerning purgatory is clearly expressed in the Decree of Union drawn up by the Council of Florence (Mansi, t. 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. Purgatory.- The subject is treated under these heads: I.
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