We are seeing a lot of Judas during this Holy Week.
This Pope’s view on hell is, as far as I can tell, is no different than that of Pope John Paul II. The only difference is that this guy just flat out says what he is thinking. JP II taught/opined that “hell” was not a place but a state of being. And then in his “Gospel of Life” he makes eternal life contingent upon union with God. So if you add two and two together, first there is not physical location of hell and then there are no souls hanging around who are separate from God. No Hell.
The issue with the papacy is that every pope since Pope Pius XII have adopted the errors of modernism to varying degrees. Leo XIII,Pius X, Pius XI, and Pius XII wrote many encyclicals warning us about modernism, freemasonry, socialism, communism, indifferentism, many “isms”.
The good news, despite Francis stacking the college of the cardinals with modernist scoundrels, is that the 100 years Lucifer was given to persecute the Church is up. His chaos is coming to an end. The Immaculate Heart will triumph.
Well said.
One note however: it was JP II who was responsible for the elevation of the majority of cardinals that voted in the conclave for Bergoglio’s election.
Downfall started with John XXIII. Vatican II.
I miss Pius XII. he was the pope when I was in parochial grade school.
He looka like my Napolitano Grandfather. Only my grandfather was NO SAINT
John 17:3
Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.
And this:
John 3:14b- 16
"the Son of Man be lifted up,
that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him might not perish
but might have eternal life."
I think the difficulty comes in assuming that those who have "eternal life" are the only ones who have "eternal existence." It seems the damned as well have an eternal existence, but in so degraded a horror-state that Scripture will not say that what they possess is "life."
It is untrue to extrapolate from JPII a conclusion that he did not believe in Hell. In "Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II said, "The words of Christ are unequivocal. In Matthew’s Gospel he speaks clearly of those who will go to eternal punishment." (cf. Matt. 25:46)