It's A Lie: No, Pope Francis Did Not 'Abolish' Hell
By Paul Bois
March 29, 2018
https://www.dailywire.com/news/28831...hell-paul-bois
The Catholic Church has preached the doctrine of hell since its founding, given that its founder, Jesus Christ, talked about it more than anyone in the New Testament.
Fathers of the Church affirmed the doctrine of hell, various Saints and Popes have affirmed the doctrine of hell, anyone who reads the comment threads on Facebook can affirm the doctrine of hell. In sum, the Catholic Church could not ever change what is established dogma even if a current or future Pope were to say something in private as ridiculous as "hell doesn't exist, the disappearance of the souls of sinners exists," which is what one Italian journalist alleges that Pope Francis told him in a recent interview.
According to the 93-year-old Eugenio Scalfari, an atheist journalist at the
leftist publication La Repubblica, Pope Francis apparently "abolished" hell by adopting the heretical doctrine of annihilation — the idea that unrepentant souls simply cease to exist after death rather than eternal damnation.
"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," Scalfari
alleges Pope Francis said.
"There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls," he
allegedly added....
...Eugenio Scalfari is also a proven manipulator who has either
misrepresented statements or downright falsified them in the past. Catholic News Agency profiled his many mea culpas throughout the current Pontiff's reign:
Scalfari's fifth meeting with Pope Francis, it is not the first time he has misrepresented the Pope's words following a private audience.
In November 2013, following intense controversy over quotes the journalist had attributed to Francis, Scalfari admitted that at least some of the words he had published a month prior 'were not shared by the Pope himself.'
The 93-year-old Scalfari even admitted in a meeting with the journalists of the Foreign Press Association of Rome in 2013 that he uses no recording device or notes when interviewing a subject, which casts serious doubt on his credibility. "I try to understand the person I am interviewing, and after that I write his answers with my own words," Scalfari said of his methods, admitting it's wholly possible that "some of the Pope's words I reported, were not shared by Pope Francis."
This is not even the first time Scalfari has misreported Pope Francis' comments on hell; he also did in 2015.
Pope Francis' public ministry has also been
replete with references to hell and Satan, affirming the existence of both on more than one occasion....
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