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yes, I say the worst change due to V2 was this virtual ditching of the doctrine (dogma) of Hell.You are quite correct about the undue focus on clergy sexual abuse of boys. A lot of modern priests seem to be drifting into a pleasant haze of universalism where Purgatory is not a dreadful place at all, but something like taking a pleasant shower before dinner. In their defense, I would have difficulty if I were a European parish priest in which only a tiny handful of elderly parishioners show up for weekly mass. Because it is a mortal sin to skip mass, that simply means that the vast majority of European Catholics won't even make it to Purgatory. I think that is a hard pill to swallow, especially if I were the one who has been given the responsibility of the spiritual nurture of this flock.
I don't believe I EVER heard a homily about Hell.. except one time this priest referred to some author or another who wrote a FICTIONAL account of how a selfish woman was about to go to Hell and the only thing that saved her was that she gave some poor person an onion or some such thing... can't recall the whole story but it was fiction!
So I've never heard a Catholic priest inform people of Hell and such things as: most people end up there. But that is what Jesus said
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