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Pope Francis has died

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fleabitdev ◴[] No.43750020[source]
Last year, an interviewer asked Francis how he envisages hell. His response stayed with me: “It’s difficult to imagine it. What I would say is not a dogma of faith, but my personal thought: I like to think hell is empty; I hope it is.”
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fastball ◴[] No.43750085[source]
Nothing from the Bible indicates that hell is empty, so that is indeed an interesting response from the Pope.
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1. code_for_monkey ◴[] No.43750579[source]
its not biblical but its very catholic, its optimistic. I've heard it from other catholics, its just a hope that at the end of everyones life they accepted jesus and made it into heaven.