tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post6309744702560191929..comments2024-03-28T16:16:51.062-04:00Comments on Musings of a Pertinacious Papist: Have these questions been answered?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-61616936163259077342015-04-15T19:29:52.257-04:002015-04-15T19:29:52.257-04:00Personally, I don't find this "soft"...Personally, I don't find this "soft" message of endless hypotheses about an "empty" or "thinly" populated hell the least bit edifying. <br /><br />Jesus' words are clear on the matter, and so are the words of numerous theologians, saints, and the Blessed Mother.Charlesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-67892253180685619542015-04-15T10:00:49.265-04:002015-04-15T10:00:49.265-04:00>If you read Benedict XVI's encyclical on H...>If you read Benedict XVI's encyclical on Hope, he says pretty much the same thing. Universalism or at lest Annihilationism is now a viable option,<br /><br />Not really it's not that simple.<br /><br />Actually since the Church teaches all men receive sufficient grace for salvation & this grace is truly sufficient so that salvation is a real possibility for them then the salvation of all is a real possibility. But this is not true universalism which teaches there is no Hell or that Hell is just a very long Purgatory.<br />Hypothetical conditional Universalism teaches Hell is a real possibility and danger for souls.<br /><br />But as I said why trust Scalfani? He doesn't even put quotes around the ideas he attributes to the Pope.<br /><br />The Pope clearly believes in eternal Hell. His public statements reflect as much.Son of Ya'Kovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645132954231868592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-17760580674927178252015-04-11T00:10:10.156-04:002015-04-11T00:10:10.156-04:00If you read Benedict XVI's encyclical on Hope,...If you read Benedict XVI's encyclical on Hope, he says pretty much the same thing. Universalism or at lest Annihilationism is now a viable option, thanks to the ambiguity of the last five Popes. Even as we busily go about sainting every last one of the for their 'heroic' papacies. It is actually scandalous. Talk all you want about the Magisterium or the doctrinal confusion of Protestantism, but we are currently just as at sea as many other 'denominations.' Face it: doctrinal clarity is a nostalgia piece and, in apologetic arguments, a sham. Truth as a consistently articulated dogmatic whole may now be the possession of schismatics. I don't know.JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06684142528414196410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-83050816253712023422015-04-07T22:42:45.902-04:002015-04-07T22:42:45.902-04:00But the Church teaches that the soul is eternal. I...But the Church teaches that the soul is eternal. In hell, the body and soul still exist and forever! So how is Pope Francis able to contradict Church teaching like this? I certainly don't trust him because of such ambiguous and even wrong statements like he made to Scalferi. He seems to be either stupid or willfully confusing the faithful and non-believers. I can't see any other possibility after these 3 years of his pontificate. Stupidity does not save souls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-22499179580360454382015-04-07T17:35:47.373-04:002015-04-07T17:35:47.373-04:00Dear Doc, so many of us have been reduced to flum...Dear Doc, so many of us have been reduced to flummification ( the state of being flummoxed) owing to the execrable eisegesis of the modernists that about the only thing that would get a rise out of us is if we were to hear that Luke<br /><br />34<i> <b>*Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children, as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldst not?</b></i> <br /><br />could be understood to be teaching us that Jesus is in some way capable of being thought of as poultry and partial proof of that is the ubiquitous presence of Peeps around Pascha.<br /><br />Mick Jagger Gathers No Mosquehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12879499915093940176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-83273377872059088232015-04-07T17:25:50.508-04:002015-04-07T17:25:50.508-04:00Why would anybody trust Scalfari?
Also how can th...Why would anybody trust Scalfari?<br /><br />Also how can the Holy Father believe in annihilation? Why does he warn of Hell and the Devil?<br /><br />Where is the Devil suppose to be? <br /><br />Non-existence?<br /><br />Why warn Mob bosses they are going to Hell if there is no Hell to go to?<br /><br />> So if this is a misrepresentation of his views, has the Holy Father corrected the public record?<br /><br />Why does he need too? To this day I still don't know what Pope St John Paul II said about the Passion of the Christ movie thought the Vatican Press office gave multi contradictory accounts and they work for the Pope.<br /><br />The Vatican may get around to it or they might just ignore it since it's unbelievable anyway.Son of Ya'Kovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05645132954231868592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6312447.post-49366571674107527602015-04-07T17:15:42.980-04:002015-04-07T17:15:42.980-04:00Nope, not been answered yet. Nope, not been answered yet. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com