He Is Not Here

[Jake Huether]

I am in full agreement with vianney.

While I like the post's intention, we cannot say FOR SURE who is in hell. And the Priest's name didn't seem made up, which would be a bad thing to say someone is in hell (even for illistration purposes) who may be trying to get out of purgatory in reality. If the Piests was purely fictional I might be inclined to find the story a bit more palitable.

that's just my 2 pennies anyway...

[Jake Huether]

Oh, I think it's worthy of noting that it wasn't Dave who wrote the thing. It was part of the web page for Peter and Paul ministries.

So, Dave, please do not take offense! :P

[Dave]

I never said the point of what I posted was meant to say who was in hell or not, nor did those who wrote the article in the first place. What it means is that contraception and receiving the Eucharist sacrilegiously are mortal sins, and as with all mortal sins, if we commit them and don't repent, we go to hell.

And objectively speaking, it would be a mortal sin for a priest to knowingly encourage someone to commit mortal sin, which would also endanger his soul.

As for the name not sounding made up, I don't know, but it's likely they just used the name of a priest they new -- one who's orthodox but who apparently didn't mind his name being used as though he were unorthodox.