News Item: : The Hell There Is!
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Friday 15 April 2016 - 12:25:17

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Dante Alighieri suggested that there was a special part of Hell reserved for those who do nothing in a crisis.

It is plain to see that the crisis inflicting the Catholic Church and Western civilization has now reached an acute stage.

Last Saturday, we highlighted a particularly problematic paragraph in Amoris Laetitia which reads: ''No one can be condemned forever for that is not the logic of the Gospel! Here I am not speaking only of the divorced and remarried, but of everyone, in whatever situation they find themselves'' (AL 297).

As we pointed out then, drawing from paragraph CCC 1036 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, this needs some serious clarification.

Throughout all ages, the Catholic Church has always re-echoed Christ's urgent warnings about the reality of Hell and the way to avoid it.

The existence of Hell is a Dogma of the Catholic Faith. That means, that to become - or to remain - a Catholic, one has to accept this reality.

We notice that the American canon lawyer Dr. Ed Peters has responded to AL 297, on his blog In the Light of the Law, in the following terms: ''To the contrary, it is precisely the logic of the Gospel that one can be condemned forever. CCC 1034-1035. If one meant, say, that no one can be condemned forever by earthly authority, one should have said so. But, of course, withholding holy Communion from those in ''public and permanent adultery'' is not a ''condemnation'' at all, so the point being made is not clear.''

Almost 100 years ago, on the 13th July 1917, Our Lady showed the three young seers at Fatima a terrifying vision of Hell. This is how it was described by Sr. Lucia: ''She opened Her hands once more, as She had done the two previous months. The rays - of light - appeared to penetrate the earth, and we saw, as it were, a vast sea of fire. Plunged in this fire, we saw the demons and the souls - of the damned. The latter were like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, having human forms. They were floating about in that conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames which issued from within themselves, together with great clouds of smoke. Now they fell back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fright (it must have been this sight which made me cry out, as people say they heard me). The demons were distinguised - from the souls of the damned - by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. That vision only lasted for a moment, thanks to our good Heavenly Mother, Who at the first apparition had promised to take us to Heaven. Without that, I think we would have died of terror and fear.''

Clearly, the danger of Hell must be very real, for Our Blessed Lady, the very Queen of Peace, to show it to three young village children.

Our Lady of Fatima later warned that more souls go to Hell for the sins of the flesh than for any other reason.

Last year, Cardinal Carlo Caffara of Bologna made public a letter which he had received from Sr. Lucia years earlier. In it, the good sister was said to have written: ''... the final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family. Don't be afraid, because anyone who operates for the sanctity of marriage and the family will always be contended and opposed in every way, because this is the decisive issue. However Our Lady has already crushed its head.''

Interestingly, AL 297 also says: ''Naturally, if someone flaunts an objective sin as if it were part of the Christian ideal, or wants to impose something other than what the Church teaches, he or she can in no way presume to teach or preach to others.''

Although various voices, including that of Cardinal Burke have correctly stated that Amoris Laetitia must be interpreted in light of the Tradition, it remains the case that, down here at the cliff-face, many ordinary folks are hearing this phrase about non-condemnation and being led into very serious errors. The persistence in these errors, and even sinful acts, could endanger their immortal souls.

It is as intolerable as it is unprecedented that such a grave danger to souls could be promoted by words contained in a papal document.

And it is just as intolerable that this serious danger has, up to now, been met with the silence of the Hierarchy. If Dante was right, the Hierarchy should be worried about their inertia. Yet, as far as we can make out, the only people to be speaking out about this danger have been a handful of courageous priests and an increasing number of lay people.

May Our Lord soon deliver us from this perilous situation.

Our Lady of Fatima - Pray for us!      


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