[sinkspur]

My only quarrel with what you have said is that Origen had a notion that nobody really went to hell because God wouldn't allow it. It was one of the notions for which he was condemned.

And yet John Paul II, along with his favorite theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar, said that it was not an unreasonable thing to hope and to pray that hell was empty.

[Kolokotronis]

"And yet John Paul II, along with his favorite theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar, said that it was not an unreasonable thing to hope and to pray that hell was empty."

With all due respect to +JPII, that's not reasonable at all, though it may be sensible and beneficial to pray that no more souls go there. The fact is, as +John Chrysostomos teaches, the floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops!