Posted on 12/01/2014 11:06:03 AM PST by BlatherNaut
Note: before some "apologists of the untenable" claim this must be a translation error, it is not, as you will see - we carefully checked it and retranslated it word by word from the Italian. What does it mean? We will not venture to say. We report it, for the record, you decide:
The Conciliar Constitution Gaudium et Spes, faced with these questions that forever resonate in the hearts of men and women, states: “We do not know the time for the consummation of the earth and of humanity, nor do we know how all things will be transformed. As deformed by sin, the shape of this world will pass away; but we are taught that God is preparing a new dwelling place and a new earth where justice will abide, and whose blessedness will answer and surpass all the longings for peace which spring up in the human heart” (n. 39). This is the Church’s destination: it is, as the Bible says, the “new Jerusalem”, “Paradise”. More than a place, it is a “state” of soul in which our deepest hopes are fulfilled in a superabundant way and our being, as creatures and as children of God, reach their full maturity. We will finally be clothed in the joy, peace and love of God, in a complete way, without any limit, and we will come face to face with Him! (cf. 1 Cor 13:12). It is beautiful to think of this, to think of Heaven. All of us will be up there together, all of us! [Tutti noi ci troveremo lassù, tutti.] It is beautiful, it gives strength to the soul. Franciscus General Audience November 26, 2014
Devil will get “time served”.
/sarcasm
That is how it always been as long as you confess to your sins and accept Jesus as savior.
So much for the faithful interpretation of scriptures by the Catholic church. If that is so, why did they “sell” indulgences?????
He was talking about the Church, so the context is the Church.
l8r...
I think you heard it correctly.
Did anybody bother to read this? From the article, the pope prefaces this statement by stating “This is the Church’s destination..” so, “We” refers to the people of the church, e.g. the saved, so yes all members of Christ’s church will be together.
If a Muzzie “Imam” is up there, my understanding of God needs some serious changing.
Those slime should be relegated to a dimension of hell about three levels below what Dante envisioned.
Can't blame the Church. The Pope has apparently gone rogue. Maybe he has apostatized. Maybe he is demented. Maybe he has been marinating in modernism for so long that he doesn't understand that his role as the Vicar of Christ is to guard and transmit the Deposit of Faith. It's a mystery.
“This is the Church’s destination. . . It is beautiful to think of this, to think of Heaven. All of us will be up there together, all of us!”
Yes, I think he is just referring to the believers here.
ROTFL!
I cannot imaging that his views were not known, at least by enough to spread the word among the Cardinals. How on earth was he selected to be Pope???
I can go about living a life of sin and debauchery —
Even better than that.
Survival of the Fittest, here I come.
three levels below what Dante envisioned. —
Hmmm, center of the earth = first level
Go deeper, get to N Korea = second level
Then shoot out into space ???
The Pope really needs some proof-readers and a TelePrompTer
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