Posted on 04/03/2018 4:39:18 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
As Catholics headed into the holiest days of the year, they woke up to the headline, “Hell Does Not Exist, Says Pope Francis.” In an interview with the Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis declared that the unrepentant don’t suffer in hell but simply “disappear.”
As usual, the Vatican is tamping down the remark’s controversy not by conceding the unreliability of the pope as a teacher of the faith but by questioning the reliability of the journalist. Scalfari’s report is not a “faithful transcription” of the pope’s comments, said the Vatican. Never mind that the pope has made the exact same comment before. As I wrote last year in The Political Pope, “While saying confidently that atheists can go to heaven, he has flirted with theological concepts suggesting that no one goes to hell. The wicked, he told an Italian interviewer, don’t suffer ‘punishment’ but ‘annihilation,’ which means ‘their journey is finished.’”
As I document in the book, Francis delights in that kind of spit-balling, subversive, dilettantish heterodoxy. In Scalfari, a Catholic turned atheistic communist, Francis found his Boswell. The pope has given him at least five major interviews and thought so highly of the first one he had the Vatican publishing house include it in one of its books. The pope obviously doesn’t care if Scalfari reproduces their conversations from his notes or memory; the pope has never corrected a single one of his “reconstructions,” as the Vatican dismissively described them on Thursday.
The Scalfari interviews, if anything, are a great resource for anyone who wants to know the real thoughts of the pope. They are just two old lefties letting it all hang out. At one of their first meetings, Francis told Scalfari not to listen to the “solemn nonsense” of Catholic evangelists.
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When are Catholics going to wake up to the fact they are following Marxism?
Catholicism is not Marxism
There are humans within the Church who are imperfect. The Church can withstand that. It always has
I went for 8 years and all they preached was Marxism.
Catholicism is not Marxism. There are humans within it who try to screw things up and who try to get kids away from it but get over it Catholicism is not Marxism
Pick up a Catechism. Talk to a good priest but until you get informed stop insulting the Church you are ignorant about
Well, Frankie is right in a way. When you go to hell you “disappear” from the mind of God and from all the people who knew you - while you are burning for Eternity.
There are humans within the Church who are imperfect. The Church can withstand that. It always has
Correct. "The gates of Hell shall not prevail against it."
No catechist could continue with my parish -— continue as an RCIA teacher, for instance -— if he or she pulled a stunt like this.
There has been a schism...we just don’t want to admit it I’m afraid.
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