This is a sad reality, but it is true nonetheless. God took him home.Īs with his predecessors (all other Popes in his line of thinking), Pope John Paul II is burning in hell for all eternity. The angels are welcoming him, and presidents, kings, rabbis, church ministers, and others, are all hailing him as a “great man” in his passing. Yes, he went to heaven, at least according to Roman Catholics, and of course, the six o’clock news. God’s servant, the Vicar of Christ on earth, the one who ministered on behalf of millions of Roman Catholics before the holy Mother Mary, oh yes, and her son Jesus too, went straight to heaven. Another interviewee said, “I’m completely sure he was a saint.” The news called him the “Pope of the People.” All over the world hundreds of thousands (millions) mourned over his death. One older lady the local news interviewed said, “I hope the Lord takes Him.” (Maybe she was not as “Roman Catholic” as she thought.) Roman Catholics believe the Pope went straight to heaven. Maybe he was simply good enough to get in on his own works. Maybe it was Mary’s prayers that got him there. People weep and believe he went to heaven because he was such a good “holy father” and in his “suffering” God “took him home.” For Roman Catholics, the supererogatory merits of bygone saints and his own merits ushered him into the eternal bliss of heaven, avoiding the refining fires of a million or so years in purgatory.

All over the Internet, and among the hundreds of magazines, newspapers, cable, radio, and satellite news stations around the world, his death is wrought in the midst of an emotional upheaval. 30-64 or 67), who served 34 or 37 years, and Pius IX (1846-1878), who served 31 years and seven months. According to Rome, John Paul II reigned as the third-longest of any pope, behind St. He died as a result from complications related to Parkinson’s disease at the age of 84.

In a long line of industrious Roman Catholic figures throughout church history, Pope John Paul II died Saturday, April 2, 2005. Proverbs 17:15, “He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD.” Did you think any differently according to the Word of God?

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