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Title: All dogs, and cats, and pigs, and goats, and cockroaches go to heaven: So says Pope Francis
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URL Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/bruce-fr ... imals-heaven-article-1.2302320
Published: Jul 25, 2015
Author: Bruce friedrich
Post Date: 2015-07-25 07:20:45 by no gnu taxes
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Views: 6149
Comments: 34

The question of whether animals will join us in the afterlife finally has a definitive response from Rome.

It’s a topic that’s been long debated, with Popes weighing in unofficially on both sides. Last December, a story broke nationwide claiming that Pope Francis had declared that animals are going to heaven, but it turns out that the media had conflated two stories, and that it was actually Pope Paul VI who had, many years earlier, told a young boy that “one day we will see our animals in the eternity of Christ.”

Paul was later contradicted by Pope Benedict XVI, who said in a sermon that “for other creatures, who are not called to eternity, death just means the end of existence on Earth.”

Notably, neither of these were doctrinal statements, and Catholic theologians continued to disagree and debate.

But no more. Despite last year’s media mix up — and despite Paul’s and Benedict's contradictory statement — Pope Francis did just officially declare that animals will join us in heaven, in his June 18 Encyclical, which offers official and binding doctrine on the question.

And in fact, he has gone far beyond animals and the afterlife, linking animals to the Trinity and declaring that the Mother of God “grieves for the sufferings of the crucified poor and for creatures of this world laid waste by human power.” For Catholics, the idea of Mary grieving for both the poor and animals, in the same sentence, is revolutionary.

So it’s almost anti-climactic that on the question of animals in heaven, Francis takes a stand: “Eternal life will be a shared experience of awe, in which each creature, resplendently transfigured, will take its rightful place and have something to give those poor men and women who will have been liberated once and for all.”

The Holy Father reiterates this in the prayers that close the Encyclical, which are filled with pro-animal sentiments, including this: “Teach us to discover the worth of each thing, to be filled with awe and contemplation, to recognize that we are profoundly united with every creature as we journey towards your infinite light.”

It is important to realize that encyclicals are Catholic Doctrine. As Pope Pius XII explained, once the Pope opines in an encyclical on “a hitherto controversial matter, it is clear to all that this . . . cannot any longer be considered a question of free discussion among theologians.” In other words, the Church has spoken.

So what does all this mean for the faithful? If Mary is grieving for the suffering of animals, and if we will all be joining other animals in heaven, it seems only sensible that we do all we can to decrease cruelty to animals, and especially our complicity in that cruelty.

The most cruelty that is meted out by humanity against God’s other creatures is a result of eating meat, dairy and eggs. Indeed, the average American Catholic eats dozens of farm animals every single year, thus directly contributing to their suffering and death.

All of us can take a stand against this abuse by no longer eating animals or their products, and when we do, we’ll be acting in clear alignment with Catholic Doctrine.

And God’s other animals will thank us when we meet them in heaven.

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#10. To: no gnu taxes (#0)

If dogs can't go to heaven, it's discrimination and and I'm not going in. Dogs are a lot better than most people.

rlk  posted on  2015-07-25   13:41:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: rlk (#10)

If dogs can't go to heaven, it's discrimination and and I'm not going in. Dogs are a lot better than most people.

You aren't really pulling out the "Discrimination Card" here, are you? I wouldn't hold much stock in this Pope's authority of the truth. So is the question is who or what IS the arbiter of what is to come? And by whose authority the lot of loved ones -- including specifically pets like dogs -- is addressed?

The lack of qualifications and inability to meet certain standards aren't necessarily "discrimination." Man doesn't make up the rules in the Next Life.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Truth is, we don't know with any surety whether we will "see" or have any reunion with any of our pets. OR the nature of such a meeting. BUT know this -- God DID assure us of some unimaginable surprises in ways we cannot fathom with our finite earthly senses...

If this is an issue for you that is important for all eternity, imagine a Heaven in which our pets CAN finally communicate with us. What a great gift that would be, eh?

"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." ~ 1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV

Contemplate the above scripture; Based on the above testimony, if I had to venture a notion, meeting our pets *would* certainly be one of God's gifts to us in Heaven. Our pets would finally be able to express their personal love in a manner that was obviously impossible here in this mortal plane of existence.

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#16. To: Liberator (#13)

Our pets would finally be able to express their personal love in a manner that was obviously impossible here in this mortal plane of existence.

They do, every day on earth. I recently had a man who was unable to speak point to his dog and write me a note saying, "my best friend."

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