[MarkBsnr]

Hmm. Good point.

I'm going to have to look at his actual speech.

[kosta50]

I'm going to have to look at his actual speech.

Here is an article that makes it clear it is not a Catholic or Orthodox doctrine to consider hell a "place." From the source:

A FEW YEARS ago the Catholic Church modernized its teaching on eternal damnation when John Paul II rejected the idea of hell as a physical place. Instead, preached the pope, "Hell is the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy. [It is] a condition resulting from attitudes and actions which people adopt in this life." As for eternal damnation, he said those who freely choose separation from God have their choice "confirmed with death and seal that choice forever."

[wideawake]

The Catholic Church has always spoken of hell as a place, or more specifically a locus.

If hell isn't a place, then it is either everywhere or nowhere.

St. John Chrysostom, St. Augustine and St. Gregory The Great all said that hell is a place, but that its location has not been revealed to us.

Remember that the Church teaches that on the Last Day, the souls of the elect will be reunited with their mortal bodies and that the souls of the damned will also be reunited with their mortal bodies.

The bodies of the damned will be located somewhere, and the place where they are located is Hell.