Dear Catholics, I am an unknowledgeable young convert of a couple of months. I had an issue come up fairly recently when it comes to conversion. Are certain souls, people, born in this world to be damned into hell? As there is no chance for their soul to make it into Heaven, likewise as punishment for their parents?
I'm 17, I've lived a deliberately pious life with no knowledge of God until I was 16. A byproduct of the world we live in, which I was born into. My family are Godless, and there are no good churches in my area nor people willing to speak the faith, nor ability to reach the ones preaching the true faith thanks to demoralization and censorship. By the grace of God I was able to convert, finding great content by Bishop Williamson, Fr. Hesse, Fr. Altenbach, Fulton Sheen, and more I discover as time goes on.
This question may seem ridiculous considering my own circuмstances and my own conversation of faith. However, I'll lay down the groundwork for why I think this is the case.
A few months back, I met a young girl after she made herself known to me. Things were fine, then not. I spare the details but she was clearly demonic as I see it now. The Commandments were broken. I had enough of it and told her God Bless you. Then her brother reached out so I told him about all of the things she had done. Including things she told me, which was not all of it, I know.
Her mother is a pagan, was never married to her father, her grandparents are horrible, and her great-grandparents are Lutheran, which is the only way she has been to Church. Her great grandfather gifted her a "playgirl" magazine and betty boop memorabilia.
This girl does not have a good home life. She lives in an apartment in a city, unmarried deceased father, sad older brother who is a "rapper". Her mother is an adulterous woman who speaks about it closely with her daughter. Only has children who are half siblings, etcétéra.
So I wonder, if because of all of this, especially so early on in her life, she's incapable of converting. If she was born without a spirit as animals are, designed and able to function as a human being but with no capability to convert.
With so many young people in 2026 living a similar life I wonder how many souls were put here without the capability to understand as it would be unfair to them to have a conscience worthy of God, thanks to the atrocities they come from and were been born into.
Therefore this is a conclusion I've come to, I would love to read theological evidence for or against this reason.
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