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We can’t make anyone believe. All we can do is give people information. What they do with it is up to them. But we have the responsibility to share information that we have when the opportunity presents itself.My mother believes a heresay that all souls go to purgatory, and no one goes to hell, or that people are reincarnated and forced to pay for their sins. She does not believe in hell and she is a Roman Catholic.
That said, share with her the following from the CCC. Again, what she does with this info is up to her
The Catholic Church teaches Hell exists. And that people who die in mortal sin do NOT go to purgatory but go straight to hell.
1036 The affirmations of Sacred Scripture and the teachings of the Church on the subject of hell are a call to the responsibility incumbent upon man to make use of his freedom in view of his eternal destiny. They are at the same time an urgent call to conversion: “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”
- Since we know neither the day nor the hour, we should follow the advice of the Lord and watch constantly so that, when the single course of our earthly life is completed, we may merit to enter with him into the marriage feast and be numbered among the blessed, and not, like the wicked and slothful servants, be ordered to depart into the eternal fire, into the outer darkness where “men will weep and gnash their teeth.”
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