Purgatory and Heaven
1.  What is purgatory? 

    A place where souls suffer for a time after death on account of their...

 ~    Venial sin

 ~    Debt of  temporal punishment due to those sins of which the guilt has been      
     forgiven.

2.  What is temporal punishment? 

    Punishment which will have an  end, either in this world, or in the world to come. 

3.   How do you prove that there is a purgatory?

       ~ From the constant  teaching of the Church
     
 ~ From the doctrine of Holy  Scripture, which declares...
       
a. That God will render to every  man according to his works
       
b. That nothing defiled  shall enter heaven
       
c. That some will be saved, "as one who has gone through fires" 

          Matt. 16:27, Apoc. 21:27.1, Cor. 3:15

4.  What does the Scripture say of the happiness of  heaven?

    'That eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of   
      man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him'. 1 Cor. 2:9