Heaven Can Wait - Pasulka, Diana Walsh (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Wilmington)

After purgatory was proclaimed an official doctrine of the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century, its location became a topic of heated debate and philosophical speculation. Over the centuries, the debate surrounding purgatory has never ended: even today members of post-millennial ''purgatory apostolates'' maintain that purgatory is an actual, physical place.