Why don't we talk about hell any more, asks the Pope


Fire and brimstone is part of the pontiff's push for a back-to-basics Catholicism

Tom Kington in Rome
Tuesday March 27, 2007
The Guardian


Pope Benedict XVI. Photograph: Franco Origlia/Getty Images

For centuries it has been one of the Catholic Church's favourite topics. But the Pope has given a fresh reminder to his flock that Hell is hell and bemoaned the fact that it rarely gets talked about these days.
The 79-year old pontiff used a Mass in the gritty Fidene suburb of Rome to put damnation back on the agenda. "Jesus came to tell us everyone is wanted in paradise, and that hell, about which little gets said today, exists and is eternal for those who shut their hearts to his love," Pope Benedict warned the congregation on Sunday. (Continues)

I got nothing to contribute...but GW, you have the most hilarious avatar on UM! I laugh everytime I see it!

Yes... why don't we talk about hell more? It's such a fun subject. There's nothing so uplifting as a good old chinwag about eternal damnation.

It is a good one.

I don't understand why religion NEEDS a Satan and hell................IMO they shouldnt need satan..or hell for that matter

I follow God, without believing in satan .............I cant understand why they need him...well appart from the whole turn or burn stuff lol

He looks like he may know a little about it

Good grief!!! he looks like the grinch that stole christmas

I think he looks like Yoda and Smeagol(from Lord of the Rings) in that picture. But I remember the article. (You know catholic PETA members had a conniption. That's real fur! )
Article Of all the old haunts he visited, I wonder if any were related to his early enlistment in the Hitler Youth. Right before he dropped out of that to become a Priest. What a resume', for one later said to be called as gods emmisary for what amounts to religious fascism. Maybe he just had the profile to fit the bill, once he realized world domination of the spirit of people through the vehicle of religion was a much better means of ruling the world, than backing a psychopath like Hitler, said to have been a catholic as well, and his fascist agenda. (As was Stalin, before he found other exploits through the vehicle of communism))