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I don't understand that article. I know this issue has been brought up, but I'm still confused. The author, in the headline and first couple of paragraphs, tells me that the pope wants to remind everybody that hell is real and not 'only' symbolic, but then he quotes the cleric as saying "He had wanted to reinforce the new Catholic catechism, which holds that Hell is a âstate of eternal separation from Godâ, to be understood âsymbolically rather than physicallyâ."
I know that the Catholic church is inherently contradictory, but that's just horrible writing on the article's author's part. This might be the least helpful news item I've read in a while. :)
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