The Last Judgment According to Francis

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The Last Judgment According to Francis

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If you’ve been greatly disturbed by the perpetual heresy spout called “Pope Francis” lately but for some reason or another were still holding out hope that he really is a Catholic and this is all just a big misunderstanding, the following story will provide a sobering reality check for you.

Today, the famous Vaticanist Sandro Magister released a blog post entitled “World’s End Update. The ‘Last Things’ According to Francis”, in which he quoted Francis’ favorite interviewer, the atheist Eugenio Scalfari, thus:

Pope Francis has abolished the places where souls were supposed to go after death: hell, purgatory, heaven. The idea he holds is that souls dominated by evil and unrepentant cease to exist, while those that have been redeemed from evil will be taken up into beatitude, contemplating God.

Although the nonagenarian Scalfari’s testimony may not be entirely reliable since he always speaks from memory and never records his conversations with the “Pope”, Francis has never taken issue with anything Scalfari said about him and continually invites him for more interviews, thus clearly approving of his reports.

Commenting on Scalfari’s testimony, Magister notes:

It is seriously doubtful that Pope Francis really wants to get rid of the “last things” in the terms described by Scalfari. There is in his preaching, however, something that tends toward a practical overshadowing of the final judgment and of the opposite destinies of blessed and damned.

Magister backs up his thesis by drawing his readers’ attention to several recent utterances of the pseudo-pope, where the latter carefully edited scriptural texts in order to implant in his audience’s minds the idea that there is nothing to be feared because all will be mercy and bubblegum.

Here are some instances cited by Magister:

On Wednesday, October 11, at the general audience in Saint Peter’s Square, Francis said that such a judgment is not to be feared, because “at the end of our history there is the merciful Jesus,” and therefore “everything will be saved. Everything.”

In the text distributed to the journalists accredited to the Holy See, this last word, “everything,” was emphasized in boldface.

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At another general audience a few months ago, on Wednesday, August 23, Francis gave for the end of history an image that is entirely and only comforting: that of “an immense tent, where God will welcome all mankind so as to dwell with them definitively.”

An image that is not his own but is taken from chapter 21 of Revelation, but from which Francis was careful not to cite the following words of Jesus:

“The victor will inherit these gifts, and I shall be his God, and he will be my son. But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

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And again, in commenting during the Angelus of Sunday, October 15 on the parable of the wedding banquet (Matthew 22: 1-14) that was read at all the Masses on that day, Francis carefully avoided citing the most unsettling parts.

Both that in which “the king became indignant, sent his troops, had those murderers killed and their city burned.”

And that in which, having seen “one man who was not wearing the wedding garment,” the king ordered his servants: “Bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the darkness; there shall be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth.”

(Sandro Magister, “World’s End Update. The ‘Last Things’ According to Francis”, Settimo Cielo, Oct. 20, 2017)

Magister proceeds to give another five examples of Francis’ skewing the truth in favor of his made-up concept of pseudo-mercy, which can be read at the link given.

For over four years now, Francis has given every indication of being a true and proper heretic. If this man is a Catholic, then being Catholic has no meaning. If he is a Pope, then being Pope has no meaning apart from wearing a certain costume and dwelling in Vatican City (and even that causes problems for the Novus Ordo Sect these days, since Francis isn’t the only one fitting that definition).

Francis’ downplaying of the seriousness of the Last Things (death, judgment, Heaven, hell) is not new. Almost four years ago, Francis had already spread the idea that the Last Judgment was not to be feared but was just going to be a big party:

• “Francis: Don’t Sweat the Last Judgment!” (Dec. 12, 2013)

Yet, we know even just from common sense that if anything in the world is to be feared, it is God’s judgment. Nothing else even comes close. The Last Judgment is, in fact, the most serious moment in our entire existence. While we must be careful always to maintain and guard the virtue of hope, by which we are assured of God’s help to attain Eternal Life due to His infinite goodness and promises and the merits of Jesus Christ, it is contrary to the Gospel and to all of genuine Catholic teaching to regard it the way “Pope” Francis does.

Recall that on November 12, 2013, “Pope” Bergoglio blasphemously asserted that God merely “scolds” but never punishes or “hurts” us. Anyone who has ever given even a cursory reading to either the Old or the New Testaments, knows that this is a load of malarkey. But what better way to deceive the masses than to preach to them a “gospel” they want to hear? “For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: and will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables” (2 Tim 4:3-4).

If there is one thing this wicked world needs to hear, it is the terrible and perfect justice of God that will be meted out to us at the Last Judgment — to everlasting salvation if we die in the state of sanctifying grace (after a mandatory sentence of purgatory for most), and to everlasting punishment in hell if we die in mortal sin. Although Francis sometimes does verbally acknowledge a kind of (self-)condemnation of unbelievers, we know that in actual fact he constantly confirms baptized non-Catholics in their unbelief, Jews in their unbelief, Muslims in their unbelief, and pagans in their unbelief.

At any rate, he constantly insinuates that all believers will be saved — as though the fires of hell were no real or acute danger to all who are capable of sinning, even the members of the Church. By speaking in this manner, Francis imparts the heresy of sola fides, “faith alone,” preached by the Protestant archheretic Martin Luther, quite in contrast to the clear teaching of Holy Scripture: “…by works a man is justified; and not by faith only” (James 2:24). And even as regards his hypocritical quasi-admission of unbelievers potentially being “condemned,” he does not really say what this condemnation consists of, calling it a mere “closing in on ourselves”, a typically Modernist phrase that could mean anything — anything but eternal hell fire, actually.

Francis is not the only Vatican II “Pope”, however, who keeps a carefree attitude toward death and judgment. For example, his immediate predecessor, “Pope” Benedict XVI, also had an aversion to mentioning that alternate destination to Heaven. He began his first encyclical letter (Deus Caritas Est), supposedly on charity, by omitting an unpopular part of a beautiful Gospel passage he quoted (the words in red are the ones Benedict omitted): “For God so loved the world, as to give his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting” (Jn 3:16). You can verify for yourself that Benedict left out these crucial but “negative” words from his encyclical on luv — CLICK HERE for a screen shot of the page on the Vatican web site, and click here for the link to the full encyclical (the quote with the omission is found in the second paragraph of the introduction).

By contrast, Holy Mother Church has always given us to understand that we must have a holy, filial fear of death and God’s judgment, which is infinitely perfect and totally unlike the judgments of men, who can only see the outside and are subject to deception, misunderstanding, and a lack of knowledge.

The great Fr. Franz Hunolt, nicknamed the “German St. Alphonsus,” preached powerful sermons about all aspects of Christian life as it pertains to the salvation of our souls, including some on the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell). You can read them for free online (read a scanned version here), or you can purchase a print copy here (BookFinder).

Holy Scripture, of course, is filled with passages speaking of the end of our lives, salvation and damnation, judgment, Heaven, hell, God’s justice and mercy, forgiveness and punishment. Consider just the following few “unpopular” samples and ask yourself if the testimony of Holy Writ does not perhaps create a picture that is a bit less, shall we say, “upbeat” about the soul’s final judgment than the impression Francis gives:

• Isaias 11:3-4
  And he [the Messiah] shall be filled with the spirit of the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge according to the sight of the eyes, nor reprove according to the hearing of the ears. But he shall judge the poor with justice, and shall reprove with equity for the meek of the earth….
• Micheas 7:4
  He that is best among them, is as a brier: and he that is righteous, as the thorn of the hedge. The day of thy inspection, thy visitation cometh: now shall be their destruction.
• Sophonias 3:5,8
  The just Lord is in the midst thereof, he will not do iniquity: in the morning, in the morning he will bring his judgment to light, and it shall not be hid: but the wicked man hath not known shame. Wherefore expect me, saith the Lord, in the day of my resurrection that is to come, for my judgment is to assemble the Gentiles, and to gather the kingdoms: and to pour upon them my indignation, all my fierce anger: for with the fire of my jealousy shall all the earth be devoured.
• Amos 5:18,20
  Woe to them that desire the day of the Lord: to what end is it for you? the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light: and obscurity, and no brightness in it?
• Proverbs 9:10
  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is prudence.
• Malachias 4:5
  Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
• Matthew 7:13-14
  Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it!
• Matthew 7:22-23
  Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name, and cast out devils in thy name, and done many miracles in thy name? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity.
• Matthew 10:28
  And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell.
• Matthew 13:49-50
  So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Luke 13:24-25
  Strive to enter by the narrow gate; for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter, and shall not be able. But when the master of the house shall be gone in, and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand without, and knock at the door, saying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are.
• Acts of the Apostles 24:25
  And as he treated of justice, and chastity, and of the judgment to come, Felix being terrified, answered: For this time, go thy way: but when I have a convenient time, I will send for thee.
• Romans 2:2,5
  For we know that the judgment of God is, according to truth, against them that do such things. But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of the just judgment of God.
• Hebrews 10:30-31
  For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• 1 Peter 4:17-18
  For the time is, that judgment should begin at the house of God. And if first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the gospel of God? And if the just man shall scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
• 1 John 2:28
  And now, little children, abide in him, that when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be confounded by him at his coming.
• Jude 1:14-15
  Now of these Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with thousands of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to reprove all the ungodly for all the works of their ungodliness, whereby they have done ungodly, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against God.
• Apocalypse 3:3
  Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe, and do penance. If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee.
• Apocalypse 6:15-17
  And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and tribunes, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of mountains: And they say to the mountains and the rocks: Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of their wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?
• Apocalypse 20:11-15
  And I saw a great white throne, and one sitting upon it, from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was no place found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing in the presence of the throne, and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life; and the dead were judged by those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and hell gave up their dead that were in them; and they were judged every one according to their works. And hell and death were cast into the pool of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the pool of fire.

Truly, there is nothing that ought to be feared more than the judgment of Almighty God! Biblical testimony is simply super-abundant on this point.

Consider also the wise instructions of the great St. Alphonsus Liguori, who taught the following in a sermon about the Particular Judgment:

Apparently St. Alphonsus didn’t get the memo that the Final Judgment would be a cakewalk for all who simply “believe” the Gospel. The saints trembled, but Francis knows he will get a hug!

Let us also recall the warning of St. John Vianney that any soul that does not pray for the grace of final perseverance will not receive it. Not exactly what Jorge Bergoglio has been spouting as of late, is it?

Then there is the well-known sequence Dies Irae (Day of Wrath), which Holy Mother Church has her priests recite at Requiem Masses for the dead. It gives melodic and poetic expression to the terrible and frightening event that will be our judgment. You can watch a beautiful clip of its musical performance here (Mozart version) and read the text in the Latin and in English translation at this link. Ask yourself if the content of the Dies Irae is compatible with Bergoglio’s hippie gospel. Hint: It’s Dies Irae, not Dies Gaudii – Day of Wrath, not Day of Joy.

Don’t be fooled by the Novus Ordo apologists who will find for you a quote here or there from Francis where he seems to be teaching you some orthodox doctrine (if they can find one!), where he appears to be contradicting what he clearly teaches at other times. Such are but the tricks of heretics and deceivers, which allow them to inject the poison of their errors all the more cleverly:

Similarly, Pope Pius VI firmly denounced…

He then slammed the heretic Nestorius, who…

The same Pope Pius then gave clear instruction as to how to deal with such heresies-in-orthodox-disguise:

Anyone who would seek to deny the truth about the danger of hell and the seriousness of God’s judgment, preaches a false gospel; he is a false prophet, a false teacher, a liar, and an antichrist (cf. 2 Cor 11:4; 2 Tim 4:3; Gal 1:6-9; 1 Jn 4:3; 2 Jn 1:9). We have been warned!

Ponder this: Who would have an interest in making sure you do not fear your own judgment? Is it God? Or is it not rather the old Enemy, the father of lies (cf. Jn 8:44) that already tempted Eve in the Garden, claiming deceitfully, “No, you shall not die the death” (Gen 3:4)?

The gospel preached by Francis is straight from hell.

“But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth: and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep: And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep” (Jn 10:12-13).

Regardless of whether Francis be the wolf or the hireling, he is definitely not the Shepherd!

Do not listen to Francis! He is an Antipope, a deceiver, a false teacher (see more evidence here). Take good care of your soul; fear God’s judgment, and prepare your soul for the day when you shall meet Him to render an account of your works: “…for the day of the Lord is great and very terrible: and who can stand it?” (Joel 2:11).

Francis thinks he can. But this is when he will truly encounter — concretely — the surprises of God!