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All dogs, and cats, and pigs, and goats, and cockroaches go to heaven: So says Pope Francis
NY Daily News ^
| 07/24/2015
| BY BRUCE FRIEDRICH
Posted on 07/24/2015 11:09:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The question of whether animals will join us in the afterlife finally has a definitive response from Rome.
Its a topic thats been long debated, with Popes weighing in unofficially on both sides. Last December, a story broke nationwide claiming that Pope Francis had declared that animals are going to heaven, but it turns out that the media had conflated two stories, and that it was actually Pope Paul VI who had, many years earlier, told a young boy that one day we will see our animals in the eternity of Christ.
Paul was later contradicted by Pope Benedict XVI, who said in a sermon that for other creatures, who are not called to eternity, death just means the end of existence on Earth.
Notably, neither of these were doctrinal statements, and Catholic theologians continued to disagree and debate.
But no more. Despite last years media mix up and despite Pauls and Benedict's contradictory statement Pope Francis did just officially declare that animals will join us in heaven, in his June 18 Encyclical, which offers official and binding doctrine on the question.
In fact, he has gone far beyond animals and the afterlife, linking animals to the Trinity and declaring that the Mother of God grieves for the sufferings of the crucified poor and for creatures of this world laid waste by human power. For Catholics, the idea of Mary grieving for both the poor and animals, in the same sentence, is revolutionary.
So its almost anti-climactic that on the question of animals in heaven, Francis takes a stand: Eternal life will be a shared experience of awe, in which each creature, resplendently transfigured, will take its rightful place and have something to give those poor men and women who will have been liberated once and for all.
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TOPICS: Catholic; Theology
KEYWORDS: animals; heaven; popefrancis; religiousleft
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To: MarMema
All dogs go to heaven Dyslectic atheists do not believe in DOG.
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posted on
07/25/2015 3:43:25 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Partisan Gunslinger
I feel nothing in killing a spider or any bug, but I avoid killing unnecessarily anything the size of a sparrow or bigger.Hinduism must be affecting me, for I try to shoo them outta the house if possible.
122
posted on
07/25/2015 3:44:49 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: laweeks
Where did this buffoon come from?BASHING!
123
posted on
07/25/2015 3:45:22 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
Worth repeating!!
Liberals believe you should tell a lie if it makes someone feel better.
Conservatives believe you should tell the truth even if it hurts someone.
124
posted on
07/25/2015 3:47:34 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Rides_A_Red_Horse
I believe its in Lamentations where God speaks through Solomon and explains the Spirit of the Animals descends to the Earth and the Soul of Man ascends to the Heavens.I just read thru it; but did not see anything like what you describe; but I did see this:
Lamentations :22
Your punishment will end, Daughter Zion;
he will not prolong your exile.
But he will punish your sin, Daughter Edom,
and expose your wickedness.
125
posted on
07/25/2015 3:52:37 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: MrB
Yep. That story was interesting but there were some scriptural problems with it. Oh?
You mean it's NOT all right to ADD concepts and ideas to what Scripture has already written?
126
posted on
07/25/2015 3:53:46 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
In any case, there was nothing in there about not being allowed to eat animal products.Hey!!!
Are you trying to subvert some of our Mormon friends?
127
posted on
07/25/2015 3:55:22 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
More accurately, encyclicals are teaching documents...HMMMmmm...
Why be 'taught' something that is NOT binding?
128
posted on
07/25/2015 3:57:01 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: SkyDancer
“...you, and your house hold...”
129
posted on
07/25/2015 3:57:52 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
If Pope Francis is in fact leading things astray to this extent, I'd want for him what I'd want for my own self under the same circumstances: a timely and repentant demise, and a merciful judgment. Poor Francis!
Can't catch a break even among his own.
130
posted on
07/25/2015 3:58:54 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: kinsman redeemer
131
posted on
07/25/2015 3:59:41 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: EnquiringMind; kinsman redeemer
I think I care about your beliefs. Not really. Some of those threads were hateful and truly hurt.
132
posted on
07/25/2015 4:01:09 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Mrs. Don-o
The really perplexing thing about Laudato Si--- and, by extension, this whole papacy --- is the amount of ambiguity and contradiction. Extend it a bit more and all of Catholicism gets included.
133
posted on
07/25/2015 4:03:56 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Elsie
What is of utmost importance to a true Liberal is to feel good about themselves only. If it takes a lie for that to happen, truth be damned.
What is of utmost importance to a true conservative is ordered freedom subject to morality. We know that truth makes us free and that freedom’s subjection to morality makes us good for all.
134
posted on
07/25/2015 4:05:12 AM PDT
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: metmom
135
posted on
07/25/2015 4:05:58 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Iscool
136
posted on
07/25/2015 4:06:47 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Chickensoup
Help me......
137
posted on
07/25/2015 4:09:28 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Salvation
Do you REALLY think our glorified bodies would be allergic to ANYTHING?
138
posted on
07/25/2015 4:10:27 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: Salvation
Think of all the people who are so allergic to dogs, cats, bees. Etc. Would they really be there? I doubt it. People are going to be sick in heaven?
That's news to me.
139
posted on
07/25/2015 4:12:33 AM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
To: Elsie; kinsman redeemer
140
posted on
07/25/2015 4:14:51 AM PDT
by
metmom
(...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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