A mini-controversy. But really much ado about nothing.
Pope Francis on hell and the devil
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3 responses to “Pope Francis on hell and the devil”
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True. “A mini-controversy, and much ado about nothing”, provided, of course, one chooses to remain blithely unconcerned and indifferent to minor trifles like major Heresy, Dissent, and Error in regard to the teachings of Christ !
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The following is a recent quote from Raymond Cardinal Burke; a man who should be elected Pope of the Holy Roman Catholic Church at the next conclave after Bergoglio is impeached and deposed:
“What happened with the last interview given to Eugenio Scalfari during Holy Week and published on Holy Thursday went beyond what is tolerable. That a well-known atheist claims to announce a revolution in the teaching of the Catholic Church, believing that he speaks on behalf of the Pope, denying the immortality of the human soul and the existence of Hell, has been a source of profound scandal not only for many Catholics but also for many people in the secular world who have respect for the Catholic Church and its teachings, even if they do not share them.
Moreover, Holy Thursday is one of the holiest days of the year, the day on which the Lord instituted the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist and the Priesthood, so that He might always offer us the fruit of His redemptive Passion and Death for our eternal salvation. Furthermore, the Holy See’s response to the scandalized reactions from all over the world was highly inadequate. Instead of clearly reasserting the truth about the immortality of the human soul and Hell, the denial only states that some of the words quoted are not the Pope’s. It does not say that the erroneous and even heretical ideas expressed by these words are not shared by the Pope, and that the Pope repudiates these ideas as contrary to the Catholic Faith. This playing around with the faith and doctrine, at the highest level of the Church, rightly leaves pastors and faithful scandalized.” -
I have to agree somewhat with the comment above. Although a lapsed Catholic and more Protestant in temperament, I was taken aback by the wishy-washy response of the Vatican and my more devout neighbors were actually quite sad.
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