I was chagrined to read on Goanet recently about some Door of Mercy at Mount Mary's church being closed and people fasting to death over it.
It would be amusing if it weren't sad that in this day and age some Catholic faithful believe that passing through such doors grants them a plenary indulgence of punishment in purgatory. First of all hang the Church recanted its purgatory doctrine. Even if has not, can one really bring oneself to believe that passing through a church door gives some spiritual relief? Roland Francis Toronto
