Why is this man smiling?
In an hour-long TV interview recently, Pope Francis I said, “I like to think of Hell as empty” (https://www.ncregister.com/cna/pope-francis-i-like-to-think-of-hell-as-empty). He hastened to add that this was not Church doctrine, but “my own personal view.”
Hey, open up the gates and let ’em out! Jack the Ripper, Mao Tse-tung, Tamerlane, Karl Marx, Margaret Sanger, the whole gang–hey, all you fellows, come on up to Heaven! Or go back up to Earth and pick up where you left off, before you were so rudely interrupted. Hurry! I don’t know how long my personal opinion will trump Church doctrine!
Yogi Berra said, “Nobody goes there, it’s too crowded.” Is this what the Pope was thinking of? Like maybe they ran out of room down there?
Back in 2017 Pope Francis warned Mafia kingpins that they could wind up in Hell if they didn’t repent and change their ways. Seems he’s changed his tune. Why try to be good, why repent, if you’re booked for Paradise no matter what? But this is playground theology.
And maybe a playground pope.
He never ceases to amaze me with this stupidity. It is more than stupidity, though. There is something seriously wrong with this man and why his religion tolerates him, I can’t imagine.
Didn’t Francis force the last pope out so he could take over?
I don’t know how you would do that.
Thanks the way I saw those events. Hostile takeovers happen in religions, too.
Near the end of Benedict’s papacy, financial access was cut off by the banks. Even utility bills went unpaid. This was after several months of Benedict being cut out of the loop on many of the operations in the Vatican. A substantial number of the Cardinals and other clergy in the Vatican refused to cooperate or even communicate with him. Of course, there were other factors, but Benedict soon resigned and Francis was chosen to take over.
Thanks, I didn’t know that. Well, at least they didn’t have him bumped off.