Il Papa, just what DO you believe?

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When asked about “bad souls,” the pope reportedly said the souls of unrepentant sinners simply vanish after death and are not subject to eternal damnation, a deviation from scriptural teaching.
“They are not punished. Those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him,” Pope Francis said, according to a translation by Rorate Caeli. "But those who do not repent, and cannot therefore be forgiven, disappear.
“There is no hell,” he allegedly continued. “There is the disappearance of sinful souls.”

So the terrorist or gang-banger who says "Live how you want now because after this life there is nothing" would be absolutely right? 
Nazi killers of Jews simply vanish just like the other ordinary schlubs who rejected the gift of life as Christ offered, right?

Vatican Rejects Atheist Interviewer's Claim That Pope Denied Existence of Hell
"The Roman Catholic Church has released a statement denying widely circulated claims that Pope Francis recently denied the existence of Hell.
"Eugenio Scalfari, a 93-year-old atheist philosopher, claimed in statements published by La Repubblica that Francis had told him in a conversation that "Hell does not exist" and that "those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear."
"Despite the news being circulated by many websites and blogs, including the widely read Drudge Report, the Vatican has since denied that the pontiff said these specific things.
"In a statement released Thursday, the Holy See stated in a communique the quotes reported by Scalfari was his own "reconstruction" and not the exact words of Francis.
" 'What is reported by the author in today's article is the result of his reconstruction, in which the literal words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted," said the Holy See, as quoted by the Catholic News Agency." . . .

Yeah? Then what about this?

Watch How CNN employee Hogg Responds When Confronted On Claim He's Actually the Bully in Ingraham Feud

Independent Journal Review  "Conservative commentator Erick Erickson called out Hogg on Twitter, claiming he was actually the “bully” in this situation for asking for an apology, but not accepting it.

Erick Erickson

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"During his appearance on CNN (naturally!) on Saturday, Hogg was read the tweet and asked what his thoughts on it were.
"He responded:

“I don't agree with it. Just like Laura, she can have her opinion, he can have his. It's up to them, but I don't agree with it personally.”

When asked if Hogg would accept Ingraham's invitation back onto his show to have a “productive discussion,” Hogg stated that he would only consider it if she “apologizes to all the people she has hurt throughout her professional career.”

Veteran Who Lost a Leg in Iraq Takes on David Hogg in Rant All of America Needs to See
"Note: This article contains coarse language that may offend or disturb some readers.
"On Friday, Derek Weida, a 29-year-old amputee veteran, posted a rant on Parkland survivor David Hogg to his Facebook page that is going viral.

Hogg's tantrum boycott about to crash headlong into a bigger one (Updated already) (Again)

UPDATE: "Boycott any company that has pulled ads from her show!
@Wayfair @hulu @Expedia @TripAdvisor @Nestle @JennyCraig @Nutrish @stitchfix JosephABank Johnson&Johnson

#IStandWithLaura

UPDATE #2:  Progressive Insurance Joins the Ad Boycott of Laura Ingraham's Show
No, Flo! Say it ain't so!  Well, it is called "Progressive", I guess.

Nor is he going to win on his personally motivated boycott against Ingraham, who has been classy and contrite.  Already a counter-boycott, called #IStandWithLaura, has been launched, targeted at the advertisers Hogg got to jump through his hoops.

Will Hogg ask us to boycott the colleges that rejected him?

Monica Showalter  "Laura Ingraham apologized for a rude tweet about David Hogg's inability to get into the college of his choice, and, as may be expected of someone who's demonstrated both childishness and leftism, he refused to graciously accept, opportunistically coming up instead with a counter-demand for more apologies on unrelated matters, ahead of yet another counter-demand for more groveling if Ingraham were to be naïve enough to follow that, which I trust she won't.

"It was done with Hogg's full knowledge that his "friend ("asking for a friend"), who "wanted" and probably came up with the swift list of Ingraham's advertisers, had begun pulling ads from Ingraham's Fox News show.  At least a dozen of them pulled out in a show of solidarity for Hogg's hurt feelings over his inability to get into the college of his choice.

"The immaturity shown here sends a signal now to the public as to why he otherwise inexplicably didn't get into the college of his choice.  Can you see how this guy would act if he didn't get the grade of his choice from his professor at one of these places if he somehow were to be allowed in?  What if he didn't get the girlfriend of his choice, or the dorm of his choice, or the honors roll of his choice, or the school paper's editor job?  It would be logical to infer that he'd be out calling for boycotts of the school from the school's donors if he didn't get the whatever of his choice.  How much easier it would be to just grow up and be a man about the whole thing, starting with the admissions rejections.  It might impress a few admissions committees." . . .

Stand for Laura Ingraham and a Free Press    
"Adult sponsors of companies sign on to bullying a conservative commentator off the air."
"Hogg, who has made extensive use of his First Amendment free speech rights, immediately turns around and demands that a free press that displeases him — Ingraham’s Fox News show — be “boycotted” by advertisers.
"Immediately the adults who sponsor Ingraham’s show stand up and do his bidding.
"Let’s start with this interesting story you won’t see anywhere else." . . .

Parkland Anti-Gun Activist Takes Photo With GOP Candidate Wearing A T-Shirt Featuring Trump Pissing On CNN

"Hogg never misses a photo op."

Cal-ee-for-nya; pick your complaint

Sadly, President Trump Is Not the Inventor of Governor Brown's Latest Nickname   . . . "The line stems from Gov. Brown’s plan for a satellite over

California in 1976 when he was running for governor at the time. The idea was outrageous due to limitations in technology and cost. Still, the idea is ludicrous considering the extraordinary amount of debt California is in. But, back then a Chicago journalist decided to call Brown "Gov. Moonbeam" to highlight his far out there ideas.

From the LA Times: 

"In 1976, a Chicago newspaper columnist wrote that Jerry Brown would get "the moonbeam vote."

The writer was Mike Royko, who then started referring to the then-38-year-old Brown as "Gov. Moonbeam." Royko was suggesting that Brown was attracting California's New Age crowd. 

Brown was a strong supporter of space exploration and many of the earliest statewide green initiatives. Yet he also gained a reputation as a fiscal conservative, refusing many perks that came with the governorship. . . .

Restaurant workers tell A-listers to shove it after call for higher wages

NY Post

"Sarah Jessica Parker, Reese Witherspoon, Natalie Portman and more than a dozen other A-listers were told to shove it by 500 restaurant workers in New York who signed an open letter to the actresses.

"The missive is a response to a letter that the Hollywood elites sent to Gov. Cuomo asking him to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers.

“ 'You’ve been misled that we earn less than minimum wage and that we’re somehow helpless victims of sexual harassment,” the restaurants’ workers said in their letter, which was organized by Maggie Raczynski, an Outback Steakhouse bartender in Clifton Park, NY. “Thank you for your concern. But we don’t need your help and we’re not asking to be saved,” they wrote.

"Cuomo is considering raising the minimum wage for tipped workers, which is as much as $8.65 in the city for restaurant workers, to be equal to the regular minimum wage, which is rising to $15 by 2020.

“ 'The cost of food is going to go up and the number of servers is going to go down,” Raczynski told The Post."

Heavens to Betsy, Hillary, Just Zip It Already

Townhall

"Failed Presidential candidate and former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton is back in the news. Not because she has done anything worthwhile, per say, but because she keeps making ludicrous comments about perceived unfair treatment because she is a woman. 

"Speaking at Rutgers University, where by the way she was paid less money than the illustrious Snooki from the hit show The Jersey Shore, Sec. Clinton lashed out critics who tell her to be quiet. 

From MSN: "I was really struck by how people said that to me - you know, mostly people in the press, for whatever reason - mostly, 'Go away, go away,'" Clinton said Thursday during an event at Rutgers University. "And I had one of the young people who works for me go back and do a bit of research. They never said that to any man who was not elected. I was kind of struck by that," Clinton said. Clinton's remarks came in response to a question from Eagleton Institute of Politics' director Ruth Mandel about the former Democratic presidential nominee's reaction to those who say she should "get off the public stage and shut up." "I'm really glad that, you know, Al Gore didn't stop talking about climate change," Clinton said to applause. "And I'm really glad John Kerry went to the Senate and became an excellent secretary of State," the former first lady continued. "And I'm really glad John McCain kept speaking out and standing up and saying what he had to say. And for heavens sakes, Mitt Romney is running for the Senate," Clinton said. 

"Of course, a simple Google search would show this to be anything but true."

Plus Al Gore promulgated his bitterness for some time.

Happy Easter

"If Jesus did not rise from the dead, then Christianity would be a false religion, we would have no hope, our loved ones would be gone for good, and we would still be in our sins. I appreciate Philip Schaff’s summary on the importance of the Resurrection based on Paul’s words:

"The Christian church rests on the resurrection of its Founder. Without this fact the church could never have been born, or if born, it would soon have died a natural death. The miracle of the resurrection and the existence of Christianity are so closely connected that they must stand or fall together. If Christ was raised from the dead, then all his other miracles are sure, and our faith is impregnable; if he was not raised, he died in vain and our faith is vain. It was only his resurrection that made his death available for our atonement, justification and salvation; without the resurrection, his death would be the grave of our hopes; we should be still unredeemed and under the power of our sins. A gospel of a dead Saviour would be a contradiction and wretched delusion. This is the reasoning of St. Paul, and its force is irresistible.
"The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records." . . . "The resurrection of Christ is therefore emphatically a test question upon which depends the truth or falsehood of the Christian religion. It is either the greatest miracle or the greatest delusion which history records." . . .

Text above from Answers in Genesis

Feckless Obama. bullied by third-world dictators.

A reminder from the archives from Nice Deb

What you can expect when our nation's president dislikes and is embarrassed by America. But the left acts as if this never happened.America under Democrats has become a third-world country, run by a third-world administration. TD

"Congressman: Iran’s Treatment of U.S. Sailors Much Worse Than Reported"

. . . "Obama at least was disciplined. He went on to deliver his SOTU speech without mentioning the unwelcome distraction from his message.

"The Obama administration went on to frame the entire situation as an example of their deftness at international diplomacy.

Essentially, the White House said, two American boats simultaneously broke down and floated into Iranian waters, at which point the IRG generously towed them to Farsi Island, provided the crew shelter, and then returned them. “Ten US Navy Sailors safely returned to US custody today, after departing Iran,” reported the US Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs Office. “There are no indications that the Sailors were harmed during their brief detention…The Navy will investigate the circumstances that led to the Sailors’ presence in Iran.”

. . . 

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter : 

I am pleased that ten US Navy sailors have departed Iran and are now back in US hands. I want to personally thank Secretary of State John Kerry for his diplomatic engagement with Iran to secure our sailors’ swift return. . . . 

Vice President Joe Biden was even more glowing:

No, there was no apology, there was [nothing] to apologize for. When you have a problem with a boat, do you apologize the boat had a problem? No, and there was no looking for any apology. This was just standard nautical practice…The Iranians picked up both boats, as we have picked up Iranian boats that needed to be rescued [and then] released them like, you know, ordinary nations would do. That’s the way nations should deal with one another. That’s why it’s important to have channels open.

"Now, of course, news is leaking out that these scoundrels were lying their asses off as usual. Rep. Forbes suggests that Iran’s treatment of the U.S. sailors “may have been much worse than what has been publicly reported.' ”

Hogg Thinks It’s “Great” He’s Destroying Laura Ingraham’s Livelihood

"Yes I Am Picking On A Little Kid"  "Because that’s the whole point. David Hogg is ignorant and illiterate, both common enough with youngsters, but he is also arrogant, vindictive, profane and openly political. He’s not out purely to ‘save children’, he’s just the lead singer in the Left’s newest boy band. He’s not a good person, that’s clear enough to me."  ... "Besides, he started it." Earl of Taint.

Earl of Taint

Sara Noble: Hogg’s Working with Media Matters to Get Laura Ingraham Off the Air

Media Matters Is Working in Tandem with the HoggsThe kid can’t silence Laura Ingraham on his own, so, he is working hand-in-hand with David Brock’s Media Matters. They have successfully destroyed a number of Fox News hosts and are working on getting rid of Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, and Tucker Carlson.
We won’t link to Media Matters but you can google their article — These are Laura Ingraham’s advertisers.  All of her advertisers are listed.
The far-left David Hogg has trashed peoples’ reputations for believing in the Second Amendment. But if you dare to criticize him or his comrades, he knows his leftist allies are on the ready.

Contact info for anti-Ingraham sponsors below

Independent Sentinel  “ 'I think it’s great that corporate America is standing with me, They cannot push us around, especially when all we’re trying to do here is save lives”, says Hogg. Hogg is destroying Ms. Ingraham’s livelihood over a snarky tweet and he thinks it’s “great”.

"Nine sponsors have now pulled their ads from her show!

"That isn’t accurate in any case. What he is trying to do is hurt Republicans and get out the vote for the Democrats. Meanwhile, he is trying to destroy Ms. Ingraham’s livelihood and he might succeed.

"If you don’t agree with Hogg or upset his little feelings, he will destroy your livelihood.

"Laura Ingraham mocked Hogg, misunderstanding his college rejections. Hogg, who hates the 2nd Amendment, apparently doesn’t like the 1st Amendment either. His reaction was to launch a boycott, just like a fascist would.

"Hogg has power because he is working with extremely far-left organizations. Among them, is Media Matters which launched a war on Fox years ago. It’s run by David Brock and funded by George Soros. The communist group has been able to destroy several Fox personalities and are trying to do the same to Tucker, Hannity, Watters and of course Ingraham." . . .

. . . 

Hogg slanders people like a vicious adult and then lets them know he’s a child victim and they can’t say anything back.
He is the bully although he is accusing Ms. Ingraham of being one. This is the fool who hung up on the President who wanted to know what he thought.
First, Hogg slandered Dana Loesch on television without challenge. He accused her of terrible things.
Then he blamed the governor for not stopping all the truly guilty people, with the shooter number one. Hogg doesn’t even mention him.
Here is Hogg blaming the governor, not the coward sheriffs, the FBI, the school, social service, just the Republicans and the NRA.

Hat tip to Expose Liberal Media Bias

Contact these cowards:

Sara Noble@indiesentinel

@Nutrish , @TripAdvisor , @Wayfair , @Expedia , @Nestle , @JosABankk, @JNJCares - Johnson&Johnson, @hulu , and @stitchfix have announced they are pulling their ads from Ms. Ingraham-boycott them for standing against the First Amendment.

Saudi Prince’s US Trip Shows Deep Changes Afoot At Home

Why didn't this happen during Obama's regime?

Hot Air

"Don’t break out the trumpets quite yet.

"But Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is, not by accident, displaying some refreshingly different and open attitudes during his ongoing three-week trip through the United States. Last week he met in the White House with President Trump, who touted a billion-dollars worth of military purchases by Riyadh.

"This week in New York the 32-year-old heir to the throne of the ultra-conservative Sunni monarchy held an inter-faith meeting for the first time with Jewish rabbis, as well as Roman Catholics. That’s a big deal.

"The Saudi Embassy said the meeting included Rabbi Richard Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism, Rabbi Steven Wernick of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism and and Allen Fagin, executive vice president of the Orthodox Union.

"The prince has said he wants to move his country toward “moderate Islam, open to the world and all religions.”

"Less than a year after being dubbed heir to the Saudi throne, this prince is driving an anti-corruption effort and has begun to gently push a broad range of reforms to open society and ultimately to diversify the oil-rich kingdom’s dependence on the vast reserves of black gooey stuff beneath the sands." . . .

Respected professor blasts ´once-proud´ CNN in scathing op-ed: ´CNN lost its way´

Dark Angel Politics

CNN lost its way in struggle to find an audience  . . . "CNN wants to be “the most trusted name in news,” and likes to suggest it is on the objective, high road compared to more partisan competitors at MSNBC and Fox News Channel. News consumers who are political moderates or right-leaning, however, have a hard time buying that promotional line. CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta is working hard to be the Trump administration’s harshest antagonist. CNN provided massive airtime and follow-up analysis to former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg in early March. Almost three-fourths of CNN’s time over an eight hour period focused on Nunberg, who has since drifted into insignificance.

"CNN President Jeff Zucker blasted Fox News recently at a journalism conference in New York, calling his cable nemesis “a pure propaganda machine.” Fox News’s prime-time programming is no doubt opinion driven and broadly defends the White House, but Zucker’s ratings envy rant overlooks solid journalism being done at Fox by anchor/reporters such as Bret Baier, Shannon Bream, Shepherd Smith and others. Zucker would make better use of his time focusing on the content of his own channel." . . .

By Brian Flood, Fox News  "Respected DePauw University professor Jeffrey McCall accused CNN of doubling down on sexual escapades in a piece that will surely draw the ire of the network’s president, Jeff Zucker.

"McCall penned an op-ed for The Hill Friday headlined, “CNN lost its way in struggle to find an audience,” and blasted the increasingly liberal network for its recent programming decisions, such as promoting the anti-Trump Chris Cuomo.

"McCall mocked CNN’s Anderson Cooper as seeking “to corner the market on interviewing shapely women who have been friendly with Trump” after the “AC 360” host sat down with both Playboy playmate Karen McDougal and porn actress Stormy Daniels.

“ 'CNN’s warped obsession with reporting about supposed adultery demonstrates a larger problem at the once-proud and groundbreaking channel,” McCall wrote.

"With a primetime lineup of Cuomo and Cooper, “CNN will have back-to-back evening anchors representing elite, east coast, powerful families,” McCall said." . . .

Katie Hopkins calls CNN the Clinton News Network  Watch the CNN anchor do her best to stick up for CNN instead of drawing out the opinions of their guest.

If we give immunity from criticism to children — such as David Hogg, et al. — then adults will rely on children to do what adults want done.

Althouse

Ann Althouse  "I don't know how much the post-Parkland protesters are acting directly from their own hearts — it's politically expedient to see them as saints! — but if they are protected from criticism, it creates a dangerous incentive to adults who want immunity from criticism.

"There are so many children around, and it is the way of the world for millennia to seize upon these handy little creatures — they're everywhere! — and use them to do the work adults want done. I'm not saying that's what's already happened with the post-Parkland protesters, just that the kid-gloves treatment of these vocal participants in the public dialogue sends a message to conniving adults that there's a special benefit to using children.

"There are consequences." . . .

Her legal career: . . . Since 1984, Althouse has taught federal jurisdiction, civil procedure, and constitutional law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where she has been tenured since 1989.[1] She was a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School for the 2007–08 academic year. A "leading light" in federal courts scholarship,^[2] she has written extensively on federalism (her central thesis being the normative value of federalism in protecting individual rights), sovereign immunity and other legal issues. She is currently the Robert W. & Irma M. Arthur-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School." . . .