Hell is the condition of everlasting separation from God. the absolute absence of love. [1033-1037]
Someone who consciously and with full consent dies in serious sin, without repenting, and refuses God’s merciful, forgiving love forever, excludes himself from communion with God and the saints. Our freedom makes that decision possible. Jesus warns us again and again not to separate ourselves definitively from him by shutting our hearts against the need of his brothers and sisters:”Depart from me, you cursed … . As you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me”
