I found it interesting that today is the feast day of a pope who resigned from the papacy. And I knew that Dante placed I believe 3 popes in Hell. And one being Celestine.. So a pope that Dante thought deserving of hell is a canonized saint.

If I recall correctly he was the last pope to resign before Pope Benedict.. many people judge Benedict harshly. To be the Pope is a cross.. but we have at least one example of a pope who resigned. The pope who feast day is today, who is a canonized saint.

I wonder what Dante would gave thought knowing that in his famous inferno he put this pope in Hell, when the Church thought he was worthy of imitation and ranks as a Saint in Hell.

That should give us some pause. If Dante could be so wrong is his judgment of a pope. We might be easily as wrong about any of the Popes of the 20th and 21 c..

‘Runaway Pope: The Saint Dante Condemned to Hell’s Antechamber’ Written By R.T.M. Sullivan

Dante is able to make out in the darkness one recognizable figure, whom he does not name.

‘I saw and recognized the shade of him
who due to cowardice made the great refusal.”
—Inferno III, 59–60‘A definite identification of Pope Celestine V as the unnamed figure who made the Great Refusal was made by Jacopo Aligheri, Dante’s son, who went into banishment with his father and brother. Here is a loose translation of the relevant part of Jacopo Aligheri’s commentary on Inferno 3.58-60:
The Pope of Rome, named Celestine, who for cowardice of heart, fearing others, refused the great apostolic office in Rome.”

‘on February 11, 2013, Pope Benedict XVI shocked me along with the rest of the world when he announced he would be resigning from the papacy on February 28. Recently I have been reading and thinking quite a bit about Pope St. Celestine, who also resigned—719 years before Pope Benedict—on December 13, 1294, and who was the only other pope who ever voluntarily stepped down from the papacy. One thought-provoking contradictory fact about St. Celestine is that although he is a canonized saint, the great poet Dante doomed him to eternal suffering in the anteroom of hell. Many other aspects of the life of this sainted hermit monk who became pope against his will are equally bizarre and fascinating, including the fact that he ran away twice from the papal role that was forced upon him.