Excerpt from Why Do We Pray for the Dead?: The Reasons for the Church's Belief in Purgatory Why do Catholics pray for the dead is a question frequently asked by our non-catholic fellow citizens. Since the practice of praying for the souls of the deceased is based upon the doctrine of Purgatory which was abandoned by the Reformers in the sixteenth century, and is now prao tically unknown among their fol lowers, the latter are naturally at a loss to understand the Catholic cus tom of praying for their departed brethren, or ...
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Excerpt from Why Do We Pray for the Dead?: The Reasons for the Church's Belief in Purgatory Why do Catholics pray for the dead is a question frequently asked by our non-catholic fellow citizens. Since the practice of praying for the souls of the deceased is based upon the doctrine of Purgatory which was abandoned by the Reformers in the sixteenth century, and is now prao tically unknown among their fol lowers, the latter are naturally at a loss to understand the Catholic cus tom of praying for their departed brethren, or as it is commonly, called, the devotion to the poor souls. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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