Irony

[vic mcclymont]

Beginning of last week the Pope announced that there was no such thing as Hell, threedays later plaster from the Basilica roof dropped off. Was he given a warning?
Vic

[Keith at Tregenna]

The Vatican has scrambled to clarify comments made by Pope Francis to a well-known Italian journalist that appeared to deny the existence of hell.

The Holy See issued a terse statement saying a lengthy article published in La Repubblica on Wednesday by Eugenio Scalfari, 93, the newspaper’s founder, was “the fruit of his reconstruction” and not “a faithful transcription of the Holy Father’s words”.

During the meeting Scalfari asked the pope where “bad souls” go, to which he was quoted as responding: “They are not punished. Those who repent obtain God’s forgiveness and take their place among the ranks of those who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot be forgiven disappear. A hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of sinning souls exists.”

The Vatican said the “literal words pronounced by the pope are not quoted” and that “no quotation of the article should be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...at-hell-exists

[robpage]

Oh dear we must have all misunderstood what he said you'll have to resort to going onto Twitter so he can explain himself

[Keith at Tregenna]

So … did he say it?

That ultimately is between the Pope, Scalfari, and —
depending on which one of them is right — God himself.