{"id":354741,"date":"2018-04-01T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T02:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/does-the-pope-believe-in-hell\/"},"modified":"2018-04-01T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T02:00:55","slug":"does-the-pope-believe-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/does-the-pope-believe-in-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the Pope Believe in Hell?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cPope Declares No Hell?\u201d<\/p>\n

So ran the riveting headline on the Drudge Report of Holy Thursday.<\/p>\n

Drudge quoted this exchange, published in La Repubblica, between Pope Francis and his atheist friend, journalist Eugenio Scalfari.<\/p>\n

Scalfari: \u201cWhat about bad souls? Where are they punished?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bad souls \u201care not punished,\u201d Pope Francis is quoted, \u201cthose who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls.\u201d<\/p>\n


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On the first Holy Thursday, Judas betrayed Christ. And of Judas the Lord said, \u201cWoe to that man by whom the Son of Man shall be betrayed; it were better for him if that man had never been born.\u201d<\/p>\n

Did the soul of Judas, and those of the monstrous evildoers of history, \u201cjust fade away,\u201d as General MacArthur said of old soldiers? If there is no hell, is not the greatest deterrent to the worst of sins removed?<\/p>\n

What did Christ die on the cross to save us from?<\/p>\n

If Francis made such a statement, it would be rank heresy.<\/p>\n

Had the pope been speaking ex cathedra, as the vicar of Christ on earth, he would be contradicting 2,000 years of Catholic doctrine, rooted in the teachings of Christ himself. He would be calling into question papal infallibility, as defined in 1870 by the Vatican Council of Pius IX.<\/p>\n

Questions would arise as to whether Francis is a true pope.<\/p>\n

The Vatican swiftly issued a statement saying the pope had had a private conversation, not a formal interview, with his friend Scalfari.<\/p>\n

The Vatican added: \u201cThe 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…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cPope Declares No Hell?\u201d So ran the riveting headline on the Drudge Report of Holy Thursday. Drudge quoted this exchange, published in La Repubblica, between Pope Francis and his atheist friend, journalist Eugenio Scalfari. Scalfari: \u201cWhat about bad souls? Where are they punished?\u201d Bad souls \u201care not punished,\u201d Pope Francis is quoted, \u201cthose who do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-354741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}