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To: one_less who wrote (7068)5/6/1999 4:04:00 PM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 17770
 
Actually, brees, you are mainly right with the proviso that God may extend specially mercy always, and that those who are guilty might need a "shove" to get to repentance, so it is not necessarily futile if all you mean is that. Once dead, though, it is pretty much done with, although Catholics believe that it is not futile to pray for the souls in Purgatory, that their penance will be lightened...