Purgatory: Good News for Most of Us | Professor Michael Root (duplicate?)

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 13th 2023, at St. Joseph's in Greenwich Village. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the speaker: Michael Root is Ordinary Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. His particular theological interests are ecumenical relations, eschatology/last things, and grace and justification. Root has been a member of various international ecumenical dialogues. He served on the drafting teams that produced the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

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0:59.0	truth. Our speaker today is Dr. Michael Root. He is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of
1:05.6	America. And he is spending his leisure time thinking about death, grace, and judgment.
1:13.6	And so sort of fittingly, he's here to talk to us about purgatory,
1:17.1	which he has subtitled Good News for Most of Us.
1:19.8	So please welcome Dr. Mike Rood.
1:26.4	Very happy to be here.
1:28.3	It's always good to come into the city, as I learned to call it, when I lived in Connecticut.
1:35.3	I did at CUA, at Catholic University of America.
1:38.3	I taught every year a required course on last things, heaven, hell, purgatory death, souls, judgment, kingdom of God,
1:47.4	any Christ. You know, this week hell, next week, death. Or actually it would be this week
1:52.2	death, next week, hell. So there was a course that was required, and I developed quite an interest
1:57.5	in this subject, which is, for me, at any rate, fascinating. I'm going to go
2:02.2	directly into the talk. I want to cover a relatively large amount of information here, because my
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