NobleSavage
Veteran Member
During his weekly audience at St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis broke from Catholic teaching in order to declare that all animals do, in fact, go to heaven.
During his address Francis quoted the apostle Paul as saying, “One day we will see our animals again in eternity of Christ.” Francis went on to add:
“Paradise is open to all God’s creatures.”
The Pope’s new position is markedly different from that of Pope Benedict XVI who said that non-human animals “are not called to the eternal life.”
In a 2008 sermon Benedict closed the doors of heaven firmly to pets and other animals by saying:
“For other creatures, who are not called to eternity, death just means the end of existence on Earth.”
One would almost believe they are making this stuff up.