Defective Bergoglian metaphysics would seem to deny that evil is a privation of the good. Anyone familiar with the pernicious scribblings of Margaret Sanger will recognize these revolting Amoris & Fiducia contentions at a glance.

"Augustine’s approach to these questions was methodical, clear, and grounded in his Christian faith. Unlike the dualistic view of some thinkers like Manichaeism, where good and evil are seen as opposing forces, Augustine saw evil as a lack or absence of good. It’s not an independent substance but a deviation from what is intended by a wholly Good Creator." [https://philosophymt.com/augustine-the-order-of-the-universe-and-the-problem-of-evil/]

St Augustine: Good, Evil, and the Order of the Universe

by Adrian Camilleri ChiaroPosted onugustine’s approach to these questions was methodical, clear, and grounded in his Christian faith. Unlike the dualistic view of some thinkers like Manichaeism, where good and evil are seen as opposing forces, Augustine saw evil as a lack or absence of good. It’s not an independent substance but a deviation from what is intended by a wholly Good Creator.Many people--like John-Henry Westen, for instance--are contradicting Bergoglio about the non-existence of Hell using testimony in Scripture, Tradition, the fathers of the Church, etc., and they are not wrong.

Many people--like John-Henry Westen, for instance--are contradicting Bergoglio about the non-existence of Hell using testimony in Scripture, Tradition, the fathers of the Church, etc., and they are not wrong.

One thing nobody seems to be pointing out, however, is the manifestation of what Bergoglio evidently considers "punishment" to consist of.

He says, and I paraphrase, that souls not in communion with God will "not be punished" but will simply disappear, having reached the end of their "journey."

Implicitly, then, it would follow that Bergoglio dissents from the Book of Genesis where it says that God considers His creation "good."  Wouldn't the worst punishment--if God is right, and Bergoglio wrong--be to cease to exist at all?  (I am not saying that such a thing is possible, because we are made in the imago Dei; I am merely conducting a reductio ad absurdum on the personal convictions of the man called "Pope Francis the First.")

Defective Bergoglian metaphysics would seem to deny, in other words, that evil is a privation of the good.  Instead, the Berg reductionistically equates "good" with pleasurable experiences and "evil" with painful or unpleasant ones, which squares nicely--doesn't it?--with what we have just learned about the worldview of Fernandez, his right hand man (a worldview I hesitate to denounce as "pornography," for fear of doing the term itself a grave injustice). "Good" is what is pleasurable; evil, whatever hinders it.  Their underlying response to the Bard's lingering question disturbingly but ineluctably emerges: according to them, it is better "not to be" than "to be," if one has to exist without the "highest" pleasure these philosopher-kings of subjectivist modernity have to offer. Our Lord's explicit warning that Heaven exceeds our conceptual capacity, they set aside in favor of what John Lennon encourages us to "imagine" instead.  Lack of belief in Hell has ramifications, apparently, for one's idea of Heaven too, since what Bergoglio and Fernandez have in mind has precisely zero Venn Diagram overlap with the teaching of the Church on this subject.  Their notion does seem, however, uncomfortably evocative of a rather crass expectation found in a different belief system entirely--the one whose "military" metaphor Fernandez overtly cites.  Regarding those who pride themselves on questioning authority, C. S. Lewis once advised, "Try questioning something else."  In the spirit of this remark, let us offer to the Bergoglians the following charitable reflection:  "Try imagining something else."

Their contracted view of Heaven, rather than their unorthodox view of Hell, is what ends up elucidating--if you will pardon the expression--a helluva lot.  Why (in the Bergoglians'warped musings) should priests be celibate, robbing them of humanity's raison d'etre?  Why can't women be priests, since (as per Fernandez) the distinction between masculine and feminine ceases--during certain experiences; namely, the most important and only valuable ones---to have any meaning at all?  Why should the Ted McCarricks of the world be brought to justice, when they haven't done anything "wrong"--only, arguably, things that are totally "good," for themselves and for other people?  Why should little Alfie Evans and others targeted by the eugenic outlook of the mainstream medical machine be given every medical opportunity to survive, if ending one's "journey" by slipping back into non-existence is no big deal at all?  Why wouldn't the "rigid" ones who refuse to "move forward"  be deserving of the most vitriolic condemnation, of exclusion and deprivation, when the only result of their efforts--nay, of their very existence--is to foist upon the world the "evil" which is continence itself?

Call him whatever else you'd like, but don't call Bergoglio an original thinker.  Anyone familiar with the pernicious scribblings of Margaret Sanger will recognize these revolting Amoris and Fiducia contentions at a glance.  Is our problem merely that we have a pope who may or may not, depending on the reliability of Scalfari's recollections, have denied the existence of Hell?  Hasn't our problem been that Bergoglio has been declaring abortionists to be "great" people, right from the very start?

Note: This piece is by a Catholic Monitor contributor.

Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet.

Francis Notes:

– Doctor of the Church St. Francis de Sales totally confirmed beyond any doubt the possibility of a heretical pope and what must be done by the Church in such a situation:

“[T]he Pope… WHEN he is EXPLICITLY a heretic, he falls ipso facto from his dignity and out of the Church, and the Church MUST either deprive him, or, as some say, declare him deprived, of his Apostolic See.”
(The Catholic Controversy, by St. Francis de Sales, Pages 305-306)

Saint Robert Bellarmine, also, said “the Pope heretic is not deposed ipso facto, but must be declared deposed by the Church.”
[https://archive.org/stream/SilveiraImplicationsOfNewMissaeAndHereticPopes/Silveira%20Implications%20of%20New%20Missae%20and%20Heretic%20Popes_djvu.txt]

– “If Francis is a Heretic, What should Canonically happen to him?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2020/12/if-francis-is-heretic-what-should.html

– “Could Francis be a Antipope even though the Majority of Cardinals claim he is Pope?”: http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2019/03/could-francis-be-antipope-even-though.html

– If Francis betrays Benedict XVI & the”Roman Rite Communities” like he betrayed the Chinese Catholics we must respond like St. Athanasius, the Saintly English Bishop Robert Grosseteste & “Eminent Canonists and Theologians” by “Resist[ing]” him: https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/12/if-francis-betrays-benedict-xvi.html 

 –  LifeSiteNews, “Confusion explodes as Pope Francis throws magisterial weight behind communion for adulterers,” December 4, 2017:

The AAS guidelines explicitly allows “sexually active adulterous couples facing ‘complex circumstances’ to ‘access the sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist.'”

–  On February 2018, in Rorate Caeli, Catholic theologian Dr. John Lamont:

“The AAS statement… establishes that Pope Francis in Amoris Laetitia has affirmed propositions that are heretical in the strict sense.”

– On December 2, 2017, Bishop Rene Gracida:

“Francis’ heterodoxy is now official. He has published his letter to the Argentina bishops in Acta Apostlica Series making those letters magisterial documents.”

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church by the bishops by the grace of God.

Election Notes: 

– Intel Cryptanalyst-Mathematician on Biden Steal: “212Million Registered Voters & 66.2% Voting,140.344 M Voted…Trump got 74 M, that leaves only 66.344 M for Biden” [http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/intel-cryptanalyst-mathematician-on.html?m=1]

– Will US be Venezuela?: Ex-CIA Official told Epoch Times “Chávez started to Focus on [Smartmatic] Voting Machines to Ensure Victory as early as 2003”: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2020/12/will-us-be-venezuela-ex-cia-official.html

– Tucker Carlson’s Conservatism Inc. Biden Steal Betrayal is explained by “One of the Greatest Columns ever Written” according to Rush: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/tucker-carlsons-conservatism-inc-biden.html?m=1

– A Hour which will Live in Infamy: 10:01pm November 3, 2020:
http://www.thecatholicmonitor.com/2021/01/a-hour-which-will-live-in-infamy-1001pm.html?m=1

What is needed right now to save America from those who would destroy our God given rights is to pray at home or in church and if called to even go to outdoor prayer rallies in every town and city across the United States for God to pour out His grace on our country to save us from those who would use a Reichstag Fire-like incident to destroy our civil liberties. [Is the DC Capitol Incident Comparable to the Nazi Reichstag Fire Incident where the German People Lost their Civil Liberties?: http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/is-dc-capital-incident-comparable-to.html?m=1 and Epoch Times Show Crossroads on Capitol Incident: “Anitfa ‘Agent Provocateurs‘”:
http://catholicmonitor.blogspot.com/2021/01/epoch-times-show-crossroads-on-capital.html?m=1] 

Pray an Our Father now for the grace to know God’s Will and to do it.

Pray an Our Father now for America.

Pray an Our Father now for the restoration of the Church as well as the Triumph of the Kingdom of the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart of Mary.