Is it possible to find a Church that is perfectly pure?
Q583 · The Person of the Church
According to Origen, “For while the Church is on earth, it is not possible to cleanse it to such purity that neither an ungodly person nor any sinner seems to reside in it, where everyone is holy and blessed and no blot of sin is found in them.”1177
1174 St. Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Heathen 9 (ANF 2:195); Cf. The Stromata, or Miscellanies 6.8; 5.26; 6.14, 7.2, 7.6; 7.11 (ANF 2).
1175 St. Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies 6.14, 7.7 (ANF 2:505, 537).
1176 St. Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, or Miscellanies 7.17 (ANF 2).
1177 Origen, Homilies on Joshua 21.1 (FOTC 105:185).