In his message, the Pope told the crowd that while they pray for those “departed souls” still being purified, they can be confident that no one will be lost and that, through God’s mercy, everyone will eventually be saved and reach Heaven.
Once again, Pope Leo XIV’s words present a sad reflection that contradicts Sacred Scripture, asserting that we can have a second chance at salvation after death, even if we reject the Gospel invitation in this life.
The Holy See Press Office published the following remarks by Pope Leo:
• “The focus of God’s concerns is clear: that no one should perish forever and that everyone should have their own place and radiate their unique beauty.”
• “Today’s Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed brings this
mystery even closer to us. Indeed, each time that death seems definitively to take away a voice, a face, or an entire world, interiorly we understand God’s concern that no one perish.”
• “May Mary, the woman of Holy Saturday, teach us once again to hope.”
The error of universal salvation is the belief that in the end everyone will be saved, regardless of faith, repentance, or obedience to God. This teaching contradicts Scripture, denies the reality of eternal separation from God for the unrepentant, and undermines the reality of divine judgment.
• “The focus of God’s concerns is clear: that no one should perish forever and that everyone should have their own place and radiate their unique beauty.”
• “Today’s Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed brings this
• “May Mary, the woman of Holy Saturday, teach us once again to hope.”
The error of universal salvation is the belief that in the end everyone will be saved, regardless of faith, repentance, or obedience to God. This teaching contradicts Scripture, denies the reality of eternal separation from God for the unrepentant, and undermines the reality of divine judgment.
The Catholic doctrine of purgatory, while claiming to purify souls after death, feeds into this false assurance by teaching that even those who die in sin can eventually be cleansed and enter Heaven through suffering and, of course, through the prayers, masses, and penance of the living.
In this way, purgatory eliminates the Biblical call to repentance in
this life and replaces it with a false hope of eventual universal redemption.
God’s word is clear that even though He desires for all to be saved, not everyone will accept His invitation.
---Jesus Himself declared that many will choose the broad road to destruction, while only a few find the way to life: “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7:13–14." AdventMessenger
God’s word is clear that even though He desires for all to be saved, not everyone will accept His invitation.
---Jesus Himself declared that many will choose the broad road to destruction, while only a few find the way to life: “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” Matthew 7:13–14." AdventMessenger
