Pope Francis tells Italian television he hopes hell is empty, calling it a personal view

Pope Francis says he likes to think that hell is empty.

Yesterday evening, in an interview with Italian television, Francis said, verbatim: "What I am about to say is not dogma, but something personal: I like to think of hell as empty, and I hope that this is the reality!"

That the pontiff contradicts the words of the saints and doctors of the Church is hardly news, but on this particular thought one would like some clarification: if hell is empty, where, in his opinion, is Hitler, for example?

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Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

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Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

The silliest thing about this renaming is its poor timing. For when the Pushkin Museum was offered, as a gift, the greatest collection of contemporary art of the second half of the twentieth century, the collection of Peter Ludwig, the very reason for the refusal was the condition that the

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Voiture woke Count de Guiche at night to announce that he was married

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Madonna with Cherubim in Milan's Brera: from Bellini to Mantegna

Pushkin Museum refused the Ludwig collection over the branch name

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Voiture woke Count de Guiche at night to announce that he was married