Pope Francis consoles a boy who asked if his non-believing father is in Heaven
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Channel: ROME REPORTS in English
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Length: 4min 47sec (287 seconds)
Published: Mon Apr 16 2018
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What gathering is this? Seems like so few people for the Pope openly answering questions...
That was a very cool moment between the Pope and that child. I also admire and respect the fact that he asked permission from the boy to discuss what they quietly spoke about.
Imagine thinking up of such a profound question regarding your late father and having the highest authority in the world be able to directly answer it for you. That's something you'll never forget in your entire life.
edit: I didn't expect to have to clarify this, but so many people seem dumbstruck by my comment. When I say "highest authority in the world", I'm referring to the highest authority in the world in reference to Catholicism. This was implied based on the context of the video.
This is such a surreal video to me, because I've always had the impression that--from a Catholic perspective--dying an Atheist would prevent entry into Heaven. Any Catholics out there? Am I out-of-date on Catholic doctrine/theology?
I'm just imagining some Bishops or Priests somewhere watching this and cringing, because they don't believe being a good person and baptizing your kids negates being an Atheist.
Edit: I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who replied with your perspective, it took me a bit to get through them all, but it was really interesting to see how so many view things differently! It was pointed out a number of times that technically the Pope didn't say that the kid's dad is actually in Heaven. Which is a good point, I did make the assumption that's what the Pope meant.
Anyway, thanks again, everyone!
Goodness, I find this man to be a real man of faith. To be able to answer a question so loaded with emotion and ramification with such compassion and insight. Thanks for sharing this OP.
Wow. Just wow. I had chills and my heart broke for that boy when he started crying. What a struggle. Good for him for finding the courage to power through it and get his answer to the question that I know had to be causing him great anxiety. I hope he finds peace.
Man I cried watching this. DANG IT 😭
I'm an Atheist. The reason that I and many other atheists like this Pope so far is because he's often embodying the change that we'd like to see in faith.
He seems far less concerned with deriving morality from dogma, and much more concerned with deriving morality from humanism.
This is what religious folks often misunderstand about atheists. Most of us are humanists. We just derive that from a general sense of empathy and compassion with an intent to cultivate that sense of morality in others, which creates a better world for us to live in.
Now, so many religions teach that morality is inexorable from faith. In order to be moral, you must have faith.
Consider the infamous video of Steve Harvey saying that you shouldn't trust atheists because you don't know where their moral barometer is at. That sentiment is obviously utterly insane when placed under the barest scrutiny, but the point is that most of us DO have strong guiding morals that inform our actions.
So we see this, to us, warped sense of morality that's derived from religious dogma. That someone who kills themselves goes to hell, for example. Well, we know that people who commit suicide usually do so because of mental illness, and that it's really no different than dying from cancer in the end, so obviously that logic makes no sense, because that particular bit of dogma was conceived in a time before we had an understand of mental illness as an affliction of the human body, back when it was viewed as an act of poor character.
So when you detach morality from dogma, suddenly your ethos becomes pretty much completely compatible with atheists.
I hope this is really indicative of a change in Catholicism and Christianity as a whole, because personally I view religious dogma as the greatest singular threat to humanity, so large religious organizations moving away from it makes me feel much safer.
The great atrocities committed in the name of faith throughout history are almost invariably committed using extreme dogmatism as a justification.
As a Muslim, I absolutely love the pope. What a great man.
I fucking love this pope. Absolute unit.