Board Thread:Suggestions Forum/@comment-27722880-20151022000033/@comment-26444332-20151023155448

It's not that we don't believe Purgatory exists, but there is no specific statement from the early Church Fathers saying that there is one, and neither is there any saying from Christ. We are open to the possibility of a Purgatory, but we do not have it as official church doctrine. A more Orthodox view would be a "place of waiting", rather than a place of purification.

And Roman Catholics get the idea of Purgatory as official doctrine from St. Thomas Aquinas, who came after the Schism.

Here's another take on the subject, rather than from my priest's words: []

Yes, I have read Dante's Purgatorio.