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LEARNING FROM CATHOLIC RADIO

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In listening to "Catholic Answers Live" on WCCR AM1260, I learned that "Purgatory" means Purification,. I did not know that, and that if ones soul is in Purgatory, that means the person/soul is being purified and made ready to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Therefore, this seems to me that if you are in Purgatory after death, you're guaranteed a place in Heaven.

On "The Sonrise Morning Show", I was reminded that we all have a Guardian Angel. I had completely forgotten about that. I might ask "Catholic Answers Live" about the relationship between God, my Guardian Angel and myself.
 
I did not know that either, and I always thought it had a negative connotation. Do you have the source where you heard this from?
 
ZantennaG1 said:
I did not know that either, and I always thought it had a negative connotation. Do you have the source where you heard this from?
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My source is in the first sentence of my post: "...Catholic Answers Live" which I hear on WCCR AM1260 in Cleveland, Ohio. It's a nationally syndicated radio talk show that airs Monday-Friday from 6pm until 8pm (Eastern time) from either EWTN radio or Ave Maria radio or, maybe, one of the other Christian Catholic networks. "Catholic Answers Live" is an informative and, surprisingly, entertaining show. They take calls from listeners. Sometimes they take calls on certain topics based on who the guest is and what the guests expertise is.
 
ZantennaG1 said:
I did not know that either, and I always thought it had a negative connotation. Do you have the source where you heard this from?
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I was taught in catechism that "purgatory is a state after death according to Roman Catholic belief in which the souls of people who die are made pure through suffering before going to heaven" (Merriam-Webster online).

I learned that Purgatory expunges sins via a period of suffering to insure repentance. It's sort of "repent... or else".

I think of it as "water boarding for sinners". The torture stops as soon as you repent sincerely.

Like a lot of Catholic doctrine, such as celibacy, these concepts developed more than a thousand years after the death of Christ in a church that was more threatening than consoling at the time.

Wikipedia: According to Jacques Le Goff, the conception of purgatory as a physical place came into existence in Western Europe towards the end of the twelfth century.[8] Le Goff states that the conception involves the idea of a purgatorial fire, which he suggests "is expiatory and purifying not punitive like hell fire".[9] At the Second Council of Lyon in 1247, when the Catholic Church defined, for the first time, its teaching on purgatory, the Eastern Orthodox Church did not adopt the doctrine."


Obviously, this shows that current day priests, ministers and preachers can and do add their own interpretation of documents that are two millenia old or more, adding their own enhancements. Radio and TV preachers seem almost compelled to add to the Bible rather than interpreting it. I guess some of them have long chats with God that I am not invited to.
 
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Occasionally, and I don't know how often, during part of Friday's 2-hour slot for "Catholic Answers Live" they have a Catholic Answers Game Show. Here's another example of how Religious radio can be both entertaining and informative. The presentation is low key, friendly and loose. They have a little jingle that's played when the contestants are pondering their answer. On 10/22/2021 one set of questions revolved around Pope John Paul II. One question was: Did the Pope attend Vatican I and/or Vatican II? This was a multiple choice question.

I want to listen to these game shows, whose questions can get pretty deep into Catholicism. However, my station , which is WCCR AM1260 in Cleveland, Ohio, comes in poorly. By sundown, it's only a memory in the Southwest portion of Cuyahoga County. I tried finding an on-line source, but was unsuccessful. Does anybody know where I can go, on-line, to hear "Catholic Answers Live" and its excellent game show?
 
Fundamentalism is associated with a Protestant denomination, not all Protestants, to be sure. Ave Maria Radio, EWTN radio, and others are not fundamentalist in a negative way at all, imho.
 
EWTN also simulcasts on more signals in a market than North Korean state radio. While legal, it's a tremendous waste of resources (broadcast airwaves were once viewed as a limited natural resource). In metro St. Louis, EWTN is available on 1080, 1260, 1380, 1460, 90.3, 92.7, 95.1, 95.9, 96.7, 102.9, and on the web.

Considering the scandals the Catholic church continues to face, it amazes me that they have any moral authority at all.
 
spiritof67 said:
EWTN also simulcasts on more signals in a market than North Korean state radio. While legal, it's a tremendous waste of resources (broadcast airwaves were once viewed as a limited natural resource). In metro St. Louis, EWTN is available on 1080, 1260, 1380, 1460, 90.3, 92.7, 95.1, 95.9, 96.7, 102.9, and on the web.

Considering the scandals the Catholic church continues to face, it amazes me that they have any moral authority at all.
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Anyone else could have bought those signals, and they didn't.
 
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