The Sopranos: What Catholics Believe About Purgatory Explained by Paulie

by EzekielDiet.com
Posted on Jul 07, 2025

Ezekiel Diet Notes: I didn’t watch The Sopranos when it came out 25 years ago. My other half wanted to watch the series because it was rated 5 stars. We try to get together everyday to watch a movie together.

I’m surprised at the profanity and constant tough guy F bombs from 25 years ago. I believe this series contributed substantially to today’s problem with everybody trying to be a tough guy with F carpet bomb speak.

It’s interesting to me because of the Catholic theme going on in the background. The Christopher character was shot several times and his heart stops for a full minute in the ICU. He wakes up later shaken claiming he was in hell with a lot of strange detail.

In the scene below Paulie is explaining to Christopher that he didn’t go to hell, what he saw had to be purgatory. Then he explains how purgatory works. I knew about Catholic purgatory doctrine and how the Catholic church sold get-out-of-purgatory indulgences to the surviving family to raise funds. But this was the first time I’ve heard this extra-biblical nonsense about counting sins and multipliers for the purgatory sentence. I have no idea if it’s actual Catholic doctrine but it highlights how the Catholic “faithful” follow all this odd dogma without ever verifying if it’s even Biblical.

Below Paulie is shook up by messages Christopher brought back from hell causing him to have nightmares. Paulie’s love interest suggests he needs to see a psychic she knows that can help him. He attends a psychic session where he was confronted by several spirits of people he’s murdered over the decades. He determines there’s no way this could be a scam and he’s very spooked that he’s “carrying around a bunch of ghouls”. So he goes to see his Catholic priest to complain that his donations were supposed to cover all this _ _ _ _, and his priest has let him down. Notice how the desk below is backwards. The drawers should be on the other side. I think this was intentional. Meaning the advice, church, or system is backwards. It’s also odd to see a priest smoking. Lot’s of subtle oddities.

However, there are surprises in the Catholic theme when Carmela (Tony Soprano’s wife, video below) gets alone in an empty hospital room and prays for Christopher whose heart has just stopped in the ICU. I was waiting for Mary to pop up dominate in the prayer instead of Jesus. But she didn’t mention Mary. It means the producers knew the difference and got the prayer right without the Maryology. The idea I guess is there are some Catholics who are plugged in spiritually and get it right. But to get it right in that environment means they have to understand the egregious extra-biblical Maryology without fleeing the deception. God admonishes to “come out of her” in Revelation 18:4 where she is pictured as a “prostitute committing fornication with the kings of the earth” in Revelation 17: 1-2.

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