Are the pains of hell equal for all? Can the pains of hell be shortened? What is the essential difference between purgatory and hell?

HELL, You Better Believe It! is a twelve-part series. All the material in this series has been researched and extracted from Catholic sources that have imprimaturs from an impressive list of Cardinals and Archbishops including principally Lawrence Cardinal Sheehan, and additionally, Archbishop Thomas Edmund Malloy, Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop John Jay Williams, Archbishop John Gregory Murray, Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman, Archbishop Franz Albert, and Archbishop Michael Augustine. (Part 6 of 12)