Is this teaching on hell OK or is it heresy?

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TheOldColonel said:
Are you really suggesting that any priest with at least an M. Div. is somehow unaware of Church teaching?
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Are you really suggesting that all priests with at least an M.Div are somehow thereby assured of understanding Church teachings accurately and without personal bias?
 
TheOldColonel said:
Yet, any priest and any Catholic is allowed to engage in theological speculation on matters not spoken definitively by the church.
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Indeed. Yet, that’s not what the priest in question is being reported as having been doing. Rather, he’s endorsing apokatastasis, which is a heresy that was literally condemned by the Church.

So, no… in his role as a parish priest, he is not supposed to endorse theological theories that the Church has asserted are heretical.
TheOldColonel said:
If you examine your own post of the priest’s article, you’ll see that the priest at no time publicly denied the existence of Hell. He merely posits the possibility that it might be devoid of human beings.
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No. Re-read the quote from the article. It’s not just that he’s asking “will there be people in hell?” – it’s that he’s asking “can a person in hell be redeemed?”. I mean, he literally identifies it as apokatastasis!
TheOldColonel said:
So I must ask, why make the false accusation of "heresy’ against this man of God
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Because it’s not false. Re-read the quote. 😉
 
NO. That’s Origenism in the homily/bulletin. Origen did not believe that hell was eternal - contrary to Matt. 25: 31-46 and related passages in Scripture. He was excommunicated for that but eventually repented on his deathbed. It’s a false rendering of what St. Paul says in Ephesians about the restoration of all things in Christ.
 
donvabeach said:
How does one conclude that a loving God would condemn a person, who may have committed some mortal sins over 50 or 60 years…to trillions and trillions and trillions of years suffering in the fires of hell?
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As has been noted a few times already in this thread, it has a lot less to do with God condemning the person and more to do with the person not wanting to be united with God. God, of course, sent Christ and the sacraments to help us choose Him, not so that He could condemn us (John 3:16-17).
 
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