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Originally Posted by festeringZit
Looks like the Pope realizes that the church has been wrong on this one for a long
time, as well.
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael...-there-no-hell
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.
[ I realize the Vatican is somewhat back-peddling on this one... I'm not surprised ]
Far being it for me to buttress the Papacy but the bottom of the article states:
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."
This is something I can say of the present papacy and the Roman church. Each day, in the am, the Jesuit , through a meditation of will , brings before his eyes the idea of the earthly Jesus, fitting into his schema humanity and all that there is in this relegation.
This powerful meditation gives the Jesuit a strength of character not available to the normal man and in this is the "picture" of the "Generalissimo Jesus", the all powerful of the earth.
This Pope is a Jesuit , much admired for their intellectual prowess both Roman and otherwise, but in fitting to the present consciousness of the intellectual miasma of our times, in a certain way, deny the spiritual, even while giving credence to the same.
The secret societies, especially of English origin spread forth the idea "kill Rome" and they meant that, but its really moot, for at the time of the 15th century and the "age of reason" their idea of a political/powerful Rome was dying and is dead.
I don't trust the reporter , not because I stand tall with the pope but because he's a reporter and of all people who claim to think they are at the bottom of Dante's hell.
They (the reporter) only repeat what another says and when they enter subtleties or try to think they enter into a realm to which , on the whole, they
can and often display an abject impotence.
The battle between the papacy and the secret societies is recent in history (15th century) and the warriors of the papacy, who pledge unabashed allegiance to the Pope, are the Jesuits. there are other orders of the Roman church who are not so strident in this manner.
For some reason, without cause, I do remember hearing of the Cistercians, the white robed monks as being a most insightful order in thought and deed.
https://www.virginiatrappists.org/hi...ercians-order/