Are there people in hell?

Although the Church definitely teaches the existence and eternity of hell, the Church has never taught that anyone is actually in hell.

That judgment is up to God alone. When we think of salvation using the "God is a loving parent" metaphor, the number of those we imagine to be damned is drastically reduced!

As the Catechism makes clear, the purpose of this language is to call us, the living, to responsibility and to respond to the love of God

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