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March 28 this year, La Repubblica, as well as the magazine, specializing in church-themed Catholic Church and The Vatican, Rorate Caeli, published a rather bold interview pontiff with his friend – atheist Eugenio Scalfari (Eugene Skalfari), an interview that the foreign press has already managed call scandalous. The fact is that in it, Pope Francis stated that no hell exists.
Thus, His Holiness for the first time in 2 thousand years subjected questioned the teachings of the Catholic Church, on the one hand, about reality hell for sinners, and on the other – about the eternal existence of human shower.
The interview is entitled even very characteristic of advertising such high-profile statement “Pope: to be a revolutionary – this is for I’m a great honor! “That’s almost literally (slightly reduced) that place in an interview in which the pontiff said about hell and the immortality of souls:
Eugene Scalfari:
Your Holiness, you talked a lot about the good souls who are destined for eternal life, but practically nothing report sinners who, according to the teachings of the Catholic churches must go straight to hell and suffer there too forever. So what about sinners, what awaits these souls?
Pope Francis:
If the soul of the sinner repents, then it will certainly receive forgiveness from the Almighty, who is infinitely merciful, which means a soul forgiven by God will also live forever. But unrepentant in souls cannot be forgiven of their sins, and therefore they simply will disappear because no hell exists.
The current pontiff, of course, is known as a great original and distinguished by rather bold looks, but Catholics did not expect such a revolutionary statement from his Pope, and therefore from The Vatican as a whole.
By the way, we note that the concept of hell and heaven does not exist far all religions, many spiritual teachings refute eternal torment souls in the subtle world after death, even if a person sinned in this life, as they say, in full. In this case, more convincing seems punishment in the form of reincarnation (Hinduism, Buddhism), that is, a tool for rebirth of souls, due to which the next incarnation, a person receives the fate he deserves In a past life. It seems far wiser divine instrument than the mythical paradise and hell of Christianity, by which For 2 thousand years now the Catholic Church has been scaring its parishioners. Did her hierarchs finally understand naivety and even the unjustified cruelty of such intimidation of people? ..
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