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Pope Francis: "There is No Hell" (a.k.a., the Cumbaya Pope)
cnsnews.com ^ | March 29, 2018 | Michael W. Chapman

Posted on 03/29/2018 3:09:37 PM PDT by broken_arrow1

In another interview with his longtime atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis claims that Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just "disappear." This is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of Hell and the eternal existence of the soul.

The interview between Scalfari and the Pope was published March 28, 2018 in La Repubblica. The relevant section on Hell was translated by the highly respected web log, Rorate Caeli.

The interview is headlined, "The Pope: It is an honor to be called revolutionary." (Il Papa: “È un onore essere chiamato rivoluzionario.")

Scalfari says to the Pope, "Your Holiness, in our previous meeting you told me that our species will disappear in a certain moment and that God, still out of his creative force, will create new species. You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God. But what about bad souls? Where are they punished?"

Pope Francis says, "They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 1moretime; catholic; catholicism; communism; liberalism; marxism; pope
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To: broken_arrow1

For many, hell is right here on earth.


61 posted on 03/29/2018 5:22:34 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: SaxxonWoods

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky - John Lennon

I imagine John was right.


62 posted on 03/29/2018 5:22:38 PM PDT by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: clintonh8r

Staffed by the Sisters of Good Intentions.


63 posted on 03/29/2018 5:28:06 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: StAnDeliver

Exacatickly.


64 posted on 03/29/2018 5:29:15 PM PDT by firebrand
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With stories appearing every few weeks about people getting closer to living forever, plus an evil tyranny waiting to take over the globe, how can people not believe in Hell?

Not existing anymore is pretty frightening, but people will be begging for it someday.


65 posted on 03/29/2018 5:35:43 PM PDT by firebrand (Cassandra was right, you know.)
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To: broken_arrow1

bump


66 posted on 03/29/2018 5:36:31 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: a fool in paradise

A cash generator.


67 posted on 03/29/2018 5:47:42 PM PDT by joesbucks
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To: All
Did anybody read the damage control "clarification" from the Vatican issued subsequently and added to the CNS article?

* In a statement released on Mar. 29, after Scalfari's report garnered worldwide attention, the Vatican said:

"The Holy Father Francis recently received the founder of the newspaper La Repubblica in a private meeting on the occasion of Easter, without however giving him any interviews. What is reported by the author in today’s article [in La Repubblica] is the result of his reconstruction, in which the textual words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted. No quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father."

ff

68 posted on 03/29/2018 5:54:12 PM PDT by foreverfree
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To: broken_arrow1

This guy...


69 posted on 03/29/2018 5:57:18 PM PDT by OldSmaj (The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
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To: broken_arrow1

Can’t they fire the little piece of crap NOW? Heresy isn’t enough anymore?


70 posted on 03/29/2018 6:38:40 PM PDT by montag813
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To: broken_arrow1

Maybe the “reporters” are putting words in his mouth.(Most likely done deliberately to discourage the flock.) Maybe something was lost in translation. Hard to trust reporters trying to explain science or religion.


71 posted on 03/29/2018 6:42:39 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: broken_arrow1

Interesting since the Apostles’ Creed said during Mass includes HE ‘... was crucified, died, and was buried. HE descended into hell; the third day HE rose again from the dead. HE ascended into heaven....’

Must say, don’t recall the ‘descended into hell’ language being in the prayer when I was a child (eons ago)


72 posted on 03/29/2018 6:55:11 PM PDT by 4integrity
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To: StAntKnee

>>Pope Frank (D), Vatican City is gonna make a lot of Progs very happy.<<

And also “Prots” because countless Catholics will refuse to remain a member of a church run by an obvious heretic.


73 posted on 03/29/2018 7:21:53 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: Chode

>> go back to sleep you old fool you<<

Are you directing that admonition to the Pope or to Sessions?


74 posted on 03/29/2018 7:29:49 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: 4integrity

>>Must say, don’t recall the ‘descended into hell’ language being in the prayer when I was a child (eons ago)<<

It was in the prayer when we recited it everyday in class, starting around 1948.


75 posted on 03/29/2018 7:36:45 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat ( Who are the idiots who elected this dreadful Pope? They need to unelect him. He is a disgrace.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
i dint see Sessions mentioned anywhere
76 posted on 03/29/2018 7:41:09 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: bitt
I haven't yet addressed the identity of this Pope in regard to the prophecy of Malachi - if there is any correlation. I'l Papa is an enigma.
77 posted on 03/29/2018 8:02:27 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise)
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To: All

“The Pope From Hell”

Coming to a theater near you...


78 posted on 03/29/2018 8:05:18 PM PDT by pajama pundit (Why are "liberal progressives" so hateful and intolerent?)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal; All
First off right this minute, Hell is NOT open for business, and will not be open for business till Jesus teaches in the Millennium. Then and ONLY then will those condemned to Hell they will not roast for eternity, they will be BLOTTED out, Incinerated, ASHED!

Second, by his death on the Cross Jesus has saved those who did not know Him.

Please get a Strongs Concordance and start understanding the Letter God wrote to us.

79 posted on 03/29/2018 8:55:44 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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