"Pope Francis has good news for atheists. Jesus died and was raised for them as well. His redemptive embrace was for all, not just a chosen few.The choice to accept its reach is our own. The Holy Father was not teaching anything new. In fact, this hope that all who do not yet know God are not only capable of doing good - but will progress toward that knowledge of God by doing good - is ancient."
So atheists have an open door, but the Mafia is "Excommunicated."
Are there heretical and apostate Protestants and Protestant churches. Absolutely. Absolutely, yes.
These are false teachers who have abandoned the true Gospel.
But what the pope is selling is that membership in the Roman Catholic church is the door to heaven, unless he says so and "Excommunicates" you.
That isn't the Gospel.
How does a person get to heaven?
But moreover, it absolutely floors me that the Vatican does not send out this "Excommunication" to the Kennedy's, Pelosi's, Kerry's of this world.