Between Heaven & Hell

CHT to the reader who sent in THIS STORY from the Weekly World News:

VATICAN SPOKESMAN CONFIRMS …
PEACE TALKS UNDER WAY BETWEEN ANGELS & DEMONS!
War between good and evil has left Hell virtually bankrupt!

By MICHAEL CHIRON
Vatican City

ANGELS and demons have quietly entered into peace talks — and if all goes well, Heaven and Hell could sign a treaty normalizing relations within weeks!

That’s the mindbending assertion of a leading theologian who has sources privy to the highstakes negotiations.

"Just a decade ago, a peace pact between Heaven and Hell would have been unthinkable," says Mario Ongini of Vatican City.

"But in this era, we’ve seen many implacable foes, like Great Britain and the IRA, sit down at the bargaining table to settle their differences.

"Of course, this won’t be a cakewalk. The two camps remain miles apart on many issues — and there’s a lot of bad blood and distrust." It was reportedly Satan who first extended the olive branch, sending God the message, "Isn’t it time to let bygones be bygones?"

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

11 thoughts on “Between Heaven & Hell”

  1. I’m sure that alot of the problem stems from our unwillingness to really reach out to Hell, or to try and understand their culture.
    Almost all of our educational material casts hell into a bad light, and portrays it’s inhabitants as somehow inferior.
    And our characterization of Satan only demonstrates our tendency to… er… demonize those we fear or don’t understand.
    Okay… pulling toungue out of cheek, now…

  4. Kosh,
    I take it you’re unfamiliar with the Weekly World News. In the words of Snopes.com, it is “an entertainment tabloid with its tongue firmly embedded in its cheek to a depth not measurable by any instrument known to man”. 🙂

  5. “War between good and evil has left hell virtually bankrupt.” They’ll sue; they have all the lawyers(except St. Thomas More).

  8. LOL.
    I’ve actually met WWN’s editor, who writes quite a bit of the stories himself. Funny guy.

  9. It is nice that the Church declares that certain people are in heaven, but never says if any particular person is in hell. Maybe God can/does save anyone, as St Teresa of the Little Flower* said. But it would be a terrible disappointment to the “older sons” among us.

  10. And the article is written by “Michael Chiron,” of course – presumably the Archangel the the Stygian ferryman. Are they the chief negotiators of the upcoming peace treaty?

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