{"id":2205,"date":"2022-02-21T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/what-the-hell\/"},"modified":"2022-02-21T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T13:26:10","slug":"what-the-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/what-the-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Hell?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as Biden and his supporters are disasters for the USA, Bergoglio and his supporters are disasters for the RCC. 'Twould appear that all of the institutions of the West are in dire need of fumigation. See here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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But Pope Francis appears to have scotched that possibility. \u201cNo one can exclude themselves from the Church,\u201d he insisted, \u201cwe are all saved sinners.\u201d Even those, he adds, \u201cwho have denied the faith, who are apostates, who are the persecutors of the Church, who have denied their baptism.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, these too. All of them. The blasphemers, all of them. <\/em>We are brothers. This is the communion of saints. The <\/em>communion of saints holds together the community of believers <\/em>on earth and in heaven\u2026the saints, the sinners, all.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

What are we to make of this?<\/strong> Surely, one asks, he cannot have meant to include unrepentant sinners in the Kingdom of Heaven? That those who deliberately take themselves to Hell, choosing an eternity of loss rather than the joys of Heaven, are nevertheless still members of the Communion of Saints? This is not Catholic doctrine, and no one, not even the Pope of Rome, can make it so by saying so.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just as Biden and his supporters are disasters for the USA, Bergoglio and his supporters are disasters for the RCC. 'Twould appear that all of the institutions of the West are in dire need of fumigation. See here: But Pope Francis appears to have scotched that possibility. \u201cNo one can exclude themselves from the Church,\u201d … Continue reading “What the Hell?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-heaven-and-hell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}