As the Church confirms Saints are now in Heaven, has it ever confirmed someone to be in Hell?

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I know this may sound like a ridiculous question, but if the Church has the authority to recognize that Saints are in Heaven, would it be so inconceivable that it also has the authority to recognize that certain individuals are in Hell? Just something that crossed my mind and wanted opinions.
 
Satan and his demons.

Other than that, we can’t give specific individuals. There are verses throughout that imply there are occupants.
 
jas84173 said:
I know this may sound like a ridiculous question, but if the Church has the authority to recognize that Saints are in Heaven, would it be so inconceivable that it also has the authority to recognize that certain individuals are in Hell? Just something that crossed my mind and wanted opinions.
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God has not seen fit to give the church the authority of such information. and with good reason, I don’t think many people could handle that sort of thing too well

besides, with saints you need a miracle to prove their intercession. not sure what equivalent would be used for hell, we probably wouldn’t want to know
 
The Eastern Orthodox assert that aside from satan and his demons, Judas Iscariot, is in hell.
 
Judas Iscariot has been argued on by biblical scholars and theologians for centuries on whether he was evil or a necessary evil who God planned on having him betray Jesus. If Jesus knew beforehand of what would take place, and God chose Judas to make the plan of salvation happen, how could he be damned to hell? In some views Judas would be a servant of God. Plus he repented in one of the Gospels. I am not so sure it is set in stone what Judas’ fate or role was in the passion.
 
I have no idea of the truth of this, but I present the wikipedia page for Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta for consideration. It says:

Pope Pius II, who considered him guilty of treachery towards Siena arising from his long-running feud with Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, excommunicated him, declaring him a heretic and attributing to Sigismondo a series of sins (incest, sodomy against his son Roberto and others) which smeared his reputation for centuries. In a unique ceremony, he was canonized into Hell with the curse, “No mortal heretofore has descended into Hell with the ceremony of canonization. Sigi shall be the first deemed worthy of such honor.” The art critic and historian Robert Hughes contrasted Sigismondo’s patronage of art with the story that his excommunication was “a distinction he earned by trussing up a Papal emissary, the fifteen-year-old Bishop of Fano, and publicly sodomising him before his applauding army in the main square of Rimini”.

When I was looking through The Spectator online to find the listed source (The Spectator, 7 August 2012), I came upon this additional bit of info:

“…Sigismondo was so famed for his cruelty that the Catholic Church made him (for a time) the only man apart from Judas Iscariot officially listed as being in hell…”
 
Well there was a ceremony that used to be used, the so called bell book and candle ceremony, to excommunicate a person using the following words
Wherefore in the name of God the All-powerful, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, of the Blessed Peter, Prince of the Apostles, and of all the saints, in virtue of the power which has been given us of binding and loosing in Heaven and on earth, we deprive him and all his accomplices and all his abettors of the Communion of the Body and Blood of Our Lord, we separate him from the society of all Christians, we exclude him from the bosom of our Holy Mother the Church in Heaven and on earth, we declare him excommunicated and anathematized and we judge him condemned to eternal fire with Satan and his angels and all the reprobate, so long as he will not burst the fetters of the demon, do penance and satisfy the Church; we deliver him to Satan to mortify his body, that his soul may be saved on the day of judgment
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jas84173 said:
I know this may sound like a ridiculous question, but if the Church has the authority to recognize that Saints are in Heaven, would it be so inconceivable that it also has the authority to recognize that certain individuals are in Hell? Just something that crossed my mind and wanted opinions.
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The Church does not know who is in Hell. Only God knows that.

We can objectively say that anyone dying in a state of mortal sin goes to Hell but we cannot know if specific individuals have gone there. Only God knows the state of a person’s soul at death, not us.

Waste of time speculating who is there.
 
By definition, we cannot know if someone is in Hell.

We cannot know the final state of the person at the moment of their death.

For Heaven, we can have certitude that they are there by the miracles performed via their intercession.

There can be no miracles originating from Hell, so we can never know if the person is there.
 
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