More than physical space, inner space, no fire burning, but fire metaphorical interior. Benedict XVI describes to about 9,000 people gathered in the Vatican for the General Audience of his image in Purgatory. And to do Calliope is not asking for help, as did Dante, but to a mystic of the fifteenth century, St. Catherine of Genoa, the wife of a drunkard and she initially loose, then puzzled by the''vision''of the horror of his sins and converted to a existence of charity 'and dedication to others. If at the time of Catherine, says the Pope, it was thought to Purgatory from the idea of \u200b\u200bthe torments of the afterlife, and as a''space in the bowels of the earth,''Caterina instead saw his soul from Purgatory a sinner: a vision of sin compared to the love of God, led her to expiate and purify. If the fire was, therefore, was not a fire''inner''. For some time the Church and Popes have left images of the afterlife, which for centuries have fed the popular imagination peopled the arts and of devils with pitchforks, blessed are the clouds of heaven and damned sinners who are attaining their purification.
In 2003, Pope John Paul II dedicated a series of reflections on Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, as the soul were tied to communion with God or not In this vein, Ratzinger reflected on Purgatory,''in which the soul suffers for failing to respond properly to such love of God and love itself becomes a flame and purifies it.'' It has recommended to pray with the dead''because''and''complete their purification, so that they can come to communion with God.'' The reflection about the afterlife, sin, and the verdict of God and 'dealt with amplitude by Benedict XVI in his encyclical Spe Salvi,'',''published in 2007. The Judgement of God, the Pope writes theologian, there will not be one of the iconography and''threatening''dismal past centuries, but even a sponge which wipes everything'''',''it will call into question responsibilities''of each man. The Spe Salvi''''reaffirms the existence of Purgatory and Hell and the league because of their Christian hope to divine justice. Indeed, states that its''the question of justice constitutes the essential argument, in any case the strongest argument in favor of faith in eternal life.'' ''It 's impossible fact that the injustice of history should be the last word,''explains one of the loudest passages of the encyclical letter. Grace''- then beats Benedict XVI, does not exclude justice. The wicked in the end, the eternal banquet, do not sit at the table beside their victims without distinction, as if nothing had happened.''
(Source: Petrus, 12 January 2011)
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