"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.
Scalfari says to the Pope, "Your Holiness, in our previous meeting you told me that our species will disappear in a certain moment and that God, still out of his creative force, will create new species. You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God. But what about bad souls? Where are they punished?"
Pope Francis says, "They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate
him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls." CSN
Uhm....
1- People are not saved because they "Contemplate" God. They are saved by His Justification/Grace after which God expects them to be on the path of Sanctification/Obedience.
2- There is a hell, in the future, the Lake of Fire which annihilates the wicked once and for all.
3- Hmmm...how will Catholics, who believe in immortality of the soul-whether in heaven or their version of hell, and of course purgatory, now be forced to spin these comments of Francis?
Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:14,15 NLT
Scalfari says to the Pope, "
Pope Francis says, "They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate
Uhm....
1- People are not saved because they "Contemplate" God. They are saved by His Justification/Grace after which God expects them to be on the path of Sanctification/Obedience.
2- There is a hell, in the future, the Lake of Fire which annihilates the wicked once and for all.
3- Hmmm...how will Catholics, who believe in immortality of the soul-whether in heaven or their version of hell, and of course purgatory, now be forced to spin these comments of Francis?
Then death and the grave were thrown into the lake of fire. This lake of fire is the second death. Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.
Revelation 20:14,15 NLT