Carla Broussard explains purgatory next on Focus.

Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers Podcasts for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Cy Kelle at your host.

I have to admit, I don't know you well, but just looking at you, I think you're going to spend

some time in purgatory.

I see that in your future.

Maybe not all of you, but most of you. So you probably should know all about it.

It's the thing is we spend so much time kind of defending purgatory as Catholics,

especially Catholics here in the United States,

that we often don't get to the part where we start thinking about, wow, what is it like?

What is purgatory?

And why is this good news you know

carlo says it's good news to get the good news about purgatory

so we ask carlou broussard the author of the brand new book

purgatory is for real to come in and talk to us about purgatory

and that's what we did.

And we'll do that just a second.

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podcast here's Carlo on Purgatory.

So, Carlo, the doctrine of purgatory gets a lot of challenge primarily from

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