{"id":778,"date":"2022-08-22T04:22:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=778"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:40:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:40:57","slug":"bishop-barron-past-sunday-sermon-how-many-will-be-saved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Barron past Sunday Sermon: &#8220;How Many will be Saved&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty good presentation of his position, which is the standard position (which gets attacked all the time) best laid out by Saint John Paul II&#39;s favorite theologian Fr. Hans Urs Von Balthasar in his book <a href=\"To%20remind us of this enmity for religion, law professor Kimberly Wehle and longtime New York Times columnist Linda Greenhouse have contributed a pair of new articles fretting about the new, pro-religious-liberty Supreme Court majority.  For Politico, Wehle writes that the opinion of the Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization \u201cmarks a serious step in an emerging legal campaign by religious conservatives on the Supreme Court to undermine the bedrock concept of separation of church and state and to promote Christianity as an intrinsic component of democratic government.\u201d This is a puzzling assertion for anyone who has read the opinion to make, as the legal issues in Dobbs were unrelated to religious liberty, but it\u2019s one that Greenhouse nevertheless echoes in arguing that Dobbs is \u201cgrounded in religious doctrine rather than constitutional law.\u201d Neither Wehle nor Greenhouse cites anything from the opinion itself to support her claims. (Indeed, the latter links to a whole separate column on the subject, which also does not cite a single line from the opinion about religious practice or belief.)\">Dare We Hope that All Men be Saved<\/a>. Of course 99% of the critics never read the book. Von Balthasar doesn&#39;t say all men are saved; he quotes St. Paul several times that we each have to work out our salvation &quot;in fear and trembling.&quot; And he points out that hell has inhabitants &#8211; devils. But while the Church has canonized Saints (an infallible declaration) it has never definitively named any specific individual to be in hell (no not Judas, or Hitler, etc). So while in human terms it&#39;s difficult to not believe some poeple have chosen hell, we cannot no for sure who might have made that choice.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read more about this &#8211; but not the Von Balthasar book -&#0160; here is the late Cardinal Dulles (buried at Auriesville, NY) in a First Things essay from 2003. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/article\/2003\/05\/the-population-of-hell\">The Population of Hell<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#39;s Bishop Barron &#8211; &quot;Hope v. Expectation&quot; &#8211; 12 minutes long.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oEs3f2Ubpvg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: static !important;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty good presentation of his position, which is the standard position (which gets attacked all the time) best laid out by Saint John Paul II&#39;s favorite theologian Fr. Hans Urs Von Balthasar in his book Dare We Hope that All Men be Saved. Of course 99% of the critics never read the book. 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