How do these people reconcile, for example, this weekend's gospel of the Beatitudes in which Jesus specifically mentions those who grieve, with such a callous disregard for the grieving of their own brothers and sisters? I'm also really tired of the soundbite response too, "canonising the dead person". They've been saying that since at least the seventies and it's a lie. 

One can only wonder what Jesus would have said as he wept for Lazarus had someone stepped forward and lectured him on Purgatory. Oh wait a minute, Purgatory hadn't been invented yet.