Father Robert Barron is also dead wrong on hell. He says we don’t really know what hell is like and most of what we think of it comes from Dante’s Inferno. He goes on to say that he thinks hell is nothing but being eternally separated from God.
Ground control to Father Barron and Pope Francis. Hell is a very real place. It all right there in the Bible.
The truth is: Most of what we know of Hell and its eternity comes from the very lips of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And he uses terms that are unequivocal. Pope St. John Paul II, in his book, “Crossing the Threshold of Hope,” pg. 185, says it succinctly:
… the words of Christ are unequivocal. In Matthew’s gospel [Christ] speaks clearly of those who will go to eternal punishment (cf. Matt. 25:46).
The CCC 1035 concurs:
The teaching of the Church affims the existence of Hell and its eternity.
Most importantly, Scripture itself could hardly be clearer:
In Revelation 20:10, St. John describes Hell (”the lake of fire,” more specifically) in relation to the Devil and the False Prophet of the end times in terms difficult to misunderstand:
And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
Then, in Revelation 20:14-15, St. John again mentions this same “lake of fire” and explicitly and specifically declares that humans will go to the same place—and that means “for ever and ever.”
This is the second death, the lake of fire; and if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown in the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8 says it as well and includes all those who die in mortal sin:
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
In Matthew 25:41 and 46, Jesus says just as heaven represents eternal life, Hell represents eternal punishment:
Then he will say to those at his left hand, “Depart from me, you cursed, in to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels…
And they [the unrighteous] will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
Matthew 13:41-42, 47-50:
The son of man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all evildoers, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep aand gnash their teeth...
So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous, and throw them into the furnace of fire; there men will weep and gnash their teeth.
The Fatima Children Were Shown Hell By Our Lady
In 1917, during World War I, the Virgin Mary appeared to three children at Fatima, Portugal on the 13th of each month from May through October. During here appearance on July 13th, 1917, she showed these three young children, ages 7 to 10, a vision of Hell.
“The Blessed Virgin Mary opened her hands, and “rays of light seemed to penetrate the earth, and we saw as it were a sea of fire.
Plunged in this fire were demons and souls in human form, like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, floating about in the conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames that issued from within themselves together with great clouds of smoke, now falling back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fear. (It must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me.)
The demons could be distinguished by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. Terrified and as if to plead for help, we looked up at Our Lady, who said to us so sadly: “You have seen Hell where the souls of poor sinners go.”
Thus, when you say the rosary, say after each mystery:
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of Hell and lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy Mercy.”
After this vision, the children lived lives of prayer (especially before the Blessed Sacrament and the Holy Rosary), sacrifice and penance for sinners so that sinners might be converted and saved from the fires of Hell that God allowed Mary to show them.
http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2015/02/03/hell-real-5-lady-fatima/