Pope Francis: “Hell is not a Place”
Pope Francis has again denied Catholic dogma concerning the afterlife. First he said, "No one can be condemned forever" (A.M. 297), then he said that the souls of unrepentant sinners who die in mortal sin are simply “annihilated” or disappear and are not punished eternally. Now he's saying that Hell does not exist.
In an interview conducted by Argentinian news site Perfil, Francis was asked, “What is your own interpretation of Hell and paradise, and what happens to people who go to Hell, and what happens to those who go to paradise?”
Francis answered: ‘"Hell is not a place," explaining that "it is a state of the heart” and “a posture towards life.
- Tuesday, March 21, 2023