Posted on 12/26/2020 6:46:44 PM PST by ebb tide
"The Pope has been a big brother, the greatest support,” Perugia Cardinal Gulatiero Bassetti said during the TV show A sua immagine.
Bassetti, the President of the Italian Bishops, spent weeks between life and death in ICU after he had contracted Covid-19. Every day, Francis informed himself about Bassetti’s health condition.
When Bassetti finally recovered and was able to answer the phone, Francis told him, “Do you know why you survived? Because there was no place in hell for you.”
McCarrick relayed this conversation with the Pope Francis, “I told the Pope that I guess the Lord still has some work for me to do.” The Pope responded to McCarrick, “But on the other hand, maybe the Devil did not have your accommodations ready.”
If Bergolio is not joking about Hell, he's denying its existent:
Francis was quoted as saying of those who die in a state of mortal sin: “They are not punished. Those who repent obtain God’s forgiveness and take their place among the ranks of those who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot be forgiven disappear. A hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of sinning souls exists.”
Ping
Sounds like the pope is a Jehovah’s Witness.
The current Pope may not agree with the central doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church ...
He probably has a hotline to his master.
So he would know about vacancy rates...../s
Maybe he was just a placeholder, keeping Francis's spot warm.
Luckily enough, there is plenty of room for il Frankie.
I hate when Hell has capacity issues.
Wait...
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