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“To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God’s merciful love means remaining separated from him forever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called ‘hell.’” (CCC 1033)
“The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, ‘eternal fire.’” (CCC 1035)
The kind of person we’ve made ourselves into at death is the kind of person we are for eternity.
Heaven is the “fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness.”
A recent meeting between Pope Francis and Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, 93, was a 'private meeting for the occasion of Easter, however without giving him any interview,' a Holy See communique stated.
COMMENTARY: To the children at Fatima 100 years ago, St. Faustina and millions of Catholics worldwide, hell is real. And, scary as such visions are, they echo a positive urgency to mercy.
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