Father Jonathan Morris Says Taking Care of Elderly is Like Taking Care of Jesus

Children who fail to visit their frail elderly parents for months at a time will go to Hell, the Pope said yesterday.

He condemned a family who neglected to visit an old lady in a care home between Christmas and August and declared: ‘Eight months without a visit from her children. This is a mortal sin.’

A mortal sin, in Roman Catholic teaching, is one so great that it rots the soul and will condemn the sinner to Hell unless he or she repents.

Pope Francis’ warning to the young not to neglect the elderly was delivered in a general audience before 20,000 people in St Peter’s Square.
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The Pope said societies that mistreat older people are infected with a ‘virus of death’ and put their own futures in jeopardy. ‘Where there is no honour for the elderly there is no future for young people,’ he said.

Do you go months without visiting your elderly parents? That’s a ‘mortal sin’ warns Pope Francis