Who gets to go to Heaven? None of us know for sure if we will be saved. Even the holiest among us can give in to sin, and be drawn into the Culture of Death before the soul leaves the body.
We can, however, make some basic assumptions. If we imagine a “spiritual bell curve”, we can picture that the souls on the right half of the bell curve are closer to God than those on the other side of that frightening divide. Those souls who may be saved have one thing in common; they are pro-life. Those who are not pro-life are on the left half of the “spiritual bell curve”. They are in the Culture of Death.
It is impossible to read Scripture honestly without concluding that idolaters, child-sacrificers, fornicators, thieves, adulterers, abortion approvers, etc. who die in that state of sin cannot get into Heaven. It is also clear that those who die as Apostate Catholics cannot get into Heaven. Those who publicly insist that their personal anti-Catholic beliefs are somehow in accord with Catholic teachings only compound their sins, ensuring even greater eternal pain for their own souls.
God hates those who have chosen The Culture of Death. He hates even more those who insist that there is nothing wrong with The Culture of Death. He reserves even greater hatred for those who twist the teachings of His Church in any way that supports their heretical positions.
There are many Catholic politicians who both take Communion and support abortion. All of them are familiar with the Teachings of The Church. They may rely on the possibility of a “deathbed confession” to save them.
It is true that a last-minute plea for forgiveness can save a soul. But, if a lifetime of supporting lies, death, theft, and hurt is based on being forgiven by that final Confession, it must be considered that it may be invalidated because it’s not complete enough, unless all the deep, wilful deceptions that accompany their apostasy are also confessed. Even as they draw their dying breath, their demons of vanity will be working hard to keep them from seeing how utterly damnable their decisions have been, doing their best to keep a proper Confession from being made.
Most pro-abortion people do not consider the effects of their own sins on their own soul. Most have deluded themselves into believing both that they have not sinned, and that, if they have sinned, it was for “the greater good”, a popular name for one of the most dangerous idols of all. Indeed, many will make that last Confession by saying, “I disobeyed the teachings of The Church for a greater good.” The clear meaning of that is, even when they are dying and confessing, they are still violating the First Commandment, “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.” If they do understand that, it’s hard to see how they’d have enough time to squeeze all that they’ve done wrong into that final Confession.
While banking on a Deathbed Confession may make a certain amount of sense for some, it must be remembered that a dying Martin Luther’s last act was to call for a priest to whom he could confess his sins and obtain Absolution. The priest did not get there in time. Some may assume that God did not want him to.
