Despite Assertions To The Contrary, Few Are Those Who Will Bypass Purgatory

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There will be few people whose lives are pure and fulfilled in all respects.  And, we would hope, there will be few people whose lives have become an irredeemable and total “No”. ...In any case, we need a final cleansing, a cleansing by fire, to be exact, in which  the gaze of Christ, so to say, burns us free from everything, and only under this purifying gaze are we, as it were, fit to be with God and able, then, to make our home with him. 

(Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI)