SYNODUS EPISCOPORUM

BULLETIN
of the Commission for information of the
X ORDINARY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS
30 September-27 October 2001

FOURTEENTH GENERAL CONGREGATION
(TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9TH 2001 - AFTERNOON)

INTERVENTIONS IN THE HALL (CONTINUATION)

H.E. Most Rev. George PELL, Archbishop of Sydney (Australia)
One duty of the bishop is to encourage the development of genuine Christian hope. One could say that there is considerable silence and some confusion on such Christian hope especially as it touches the Last Things, death and judgment, heaven and hell.

Limbo seems to have disappeared, purgatory has slipped into limbo, hell is left unmentioned, except perhaps for terrorists and infamous criminals, while heaven is the final and universal human right; or perhaps just a consoling myth.