Atonement

ATONEMENT

BASIC R.C. BELIEF The redemptive activity of Christ. The word also applies to prayers and good works by which men join themselves with Christ’s work (CATHOLIC WORD BOOK, Knights of Columbus, page 5).

POST VATICAN II The late Fulton Sheen in his book, THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST, prayed this prayer to God, “Reconciliation is Thy work; atonement is mine.

St. Peter’s Catechism (1972), page 19, states, “All the souls in purgatory will go to Heaven when they have atoned for their sins.”