UPDATE: Pope Francis Didn’t Say Paradise Is Open To All God’s Creatures, But Another Pope Did
It was a mix-up, probably based on what we expect this pope to say. But it was a previous pope who said pets go to heaven while comforting a boy who lost his dog.
Click here for reuse options!So how could such a fable so quickly become taken as fact?Part of the answer may be the topic of the pope’s talk to the crowd that day, which centered on the End Times and the transformation of all creation into a “new heaven” and a “new earth.” Citing St. Paul in the New Testament, Francis said that is not “the annihilation of the cosmos and of everything around us, but the bringing of all things into the fullness of being.”
The trail of digital bread crumbs then appears to lead to an Italian news report that extended Francis’ discussion of a renewed creation to the question of whether animals too will go to heaven.
“One day we will see our pets in the eternity of Christ,” the report quoted Paul VI as telling a disconsolate boy years ago.
The story was titled, somewhat misleadingly: “Paradise for animals? The Pope doesn’t rule it out.” It wasn’t clear which pope the writer meant, however.
The next day, Nov. 27, a story in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera by veteran Vaticanista Gian Guido Vecchi pushed the headline further: “The Pope and pets: “Paradise is open to all creatures.”
Vecchi faithfully recounted the pope’s talk about a new creation, and also cited Paul VI’s remark.
But the headline put those words in Francis’ mouth, and that became the story.
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11 responses to UPDATE: Pope Francis Didn’t Say Paradise Is Open To All God’s Creatures, But Another Pope Did
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StoneyCurtisll December 14th, 2014 at 14:57
Personally I have no interest in what any Pope or any other religious charlatan has to say..
But I do find the current Pope to be a little more ‘hip’ than the previous ones.
Mainly because is is pissing off the more conservative a-holes in their ‘church’.
Dr. H. Sawyer, Jr. December 14th, 2014 at 22:53
Amen !!!!!!
StoneyCurtisll December 14th, 2014 at 15:57
Personally I have no interest in what any Pope or any other religious charlatan has to say..
But I do find the current Pope to be a little more ‘hip’ than the previous ones.
Mainly because is is pissing off the more conservative a-holes in their ‘church’.
Dr. H. Sawyer, Jr. December 14th, 2014 at 23:53
Amen !!!!!!
Jake December 14th, 2014 at 16:21
What? A religious organization putting words into the mouth of someone who never said them? How can that possibly be? Isn’t the Pope inflammable ( that’s why they don’t cremate them ). Next thing you’ll be telling me Jesus never said doctors who perform abortions should be murdered and the poor should be allowed to starve to death, and women are the property of men, and the sick should just die out.
TAX the CHURCHES
Dr. H. Sawyer, Jr. December 14th, 2014 at 22:52
PLEASE TAX THE CHURCHES. Most especially, the churches where the pastors own hundreds of millions of dollars in property !!!!!!!
Dwendt44 December 14th, 2014 at 23:11
Make that BILLIONS..
tracey marie December 14th, 2014 at 20:45
explain how this god person created everything but does not allow all animals into this paradise. Where is this paradise, they say above, above where, what dimension?
tracey marie December 14th, 2014 at 21:45
explain how this god person created everything but does not allow all animals into this paradise. Where is this paradise, they say above, above where, what dimension?
Dr. H. Sawyer, Jr. December 14th, 2014 at 23:52
PLEASE TAX THE CHURCHES. Most especially, the churches where the pastors own hundreds of millions of dollars in property !!!!!!!
Dwendt44 December 15th, 2014 at 00:11
Make that BILLIONS..