{"id":14109,"date":"2026-05-17T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14109"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:00:34","slug":"heaven-and-hell-the-looming-of-the-last-things-at-the-end-of-the-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/heaven-and-hell-the-looming-of-the-last-things-at-the-end-of-the-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Heaven and Hell: the Looming of the Last Things at the End of the Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/heaven-and-hell?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true\">Top<\/a> o&#8217; the <em>Stack<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Note to Vlastimil:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the newly-redacted full-length version of the text you quote over at Facebook. Look near the top of my current.. I toned down the part where you sensed anger on my part at pedophile priests. The Roman way around the problem of the spiritual efficacy of confessing your sins to a corrupt priest is via the doctrine of <em>ex opere operato<\/em>, which is a topic for a separate occasion as is the dangerous folly of face-to-face confession, now mindlessly re-named, &#8220;Reconciliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top o&#8217; the Stack. Note to Vlastimil: This is the newly-redacted full-length version of the text you quote over at Facebook. Look near the top of my current.. I toned down the part where you sensed anger on my part at pedophile priests. The Roman way around the problem of the spiritual efficacy of confessing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/heaven-and-hell-the-looming-of-the-last-things-at-the-end-of-the-trail\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heaven and Hell: the Looming of the Last Things at the End of the Trail&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,38,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-heaven-and-hell","category-last-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14110,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14109\/revisions\/14110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}