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JMJ
Except for the SSPX, the Catholic Church of the 21st Century seems to lack consequences.
Obviously, when I speak about consequences I am referring to the speed with which Rome responded when the SSPX announced and the proceeded with the consecration of four bishops without a Papal Mandate to do so.
Moving on ...
The biggest consequence whose absence I am thinking about is:
- The existence of hell,
- that the damned are damned forever (i.e. eternity),
- that the fallen angels are the first condemned to hell,
- that humans who die in a state of mortal sin are condemned to hell,
- Hell is neither empty nor full, there is always room for one more,
- See #2.
However ... since the Second Vatican Council, there is a paucity of discourse within the mainstream Catholic Church on the topic.
While it is true that, except for Judas Iscariat, we cannot know without for certain who is in hell without God's help, the fact is that it exists and everyone who dies in the state of mortal since goes there.
Maybe it was a mistranslation that the Vatican cleaned up in 2014 - and the original exists on archive.org.
So to clear the 'air' on this:
The souls of the just which in the moment of death are free from all guilt of sin and punishment for sin, enter into Heaven (De Fide)The souls of those who die in the condition of personal grievous sin enter Hell (De Fide)The Punishment of Hell lasts for all eternity (De Fide)The souls of the just which, in the moment of death, are burdened with venial sins or temporal punishment due to sin, enter Purgatory. (De Fide)
Source of these is Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwg Ott.
So teaching that there are Fallen Angels, a Hell and that death with mortal sin on ones soul is not cruel. The opposite is true, allowing sacrilegious communions is cruelty.
Without this truth - the Church won't emerge from the crisis because it makes the Sacrifice of the Cross moot.
P^3

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