http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2018/vatican-claim-that-pope-denied-hells-existence-is-unreliable.cfm
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican said comments attributed to Pope Francis denying the existence of hell are a product of an Italian journalist's "reconstruction" of the pope's remarks and not a faithful transcript of the pope's real words.
Eugenio Scalfari, a co-founder and former editor of La Repubblica, an Italian daily, said Pope Francis -- with whom he has had several telephone conversations and face-to-face meetings -- invited him to his residence March 27.
During their conversation, Scalfari, 93, an avowed atheist, claims the pope said that while the souls of repentant sinners "receive the forgiveness of God and go among the line of souls who contemplate him, the souls of those who are unrepentant, and thus cannot be forgiven, disappear."
"Hell does not exist, the disappearance of sinful souls exists," Scalfari claims the pope said in the interview published March 29.
The Italian journalist has explained on more than one occasion that he does not take notes or record his conversations with the pope; he re-creates them afterward from memory, including the material he puts in quotation marks.
The Vatican issued a statement soon after the article was published, saying the pope did receive Scalfari "in a private meeting" to exchange Easter greetings, but he did not "give him an interview."
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Vatican said comments attributed to Pope Francis denying the existence of hell are a product of an Italian journalist's "reconstruction" of the pope's remarks and not a faithful transcript of the pope's real words.
Eugenio Scalfari, a co-founder and former editor of La Repubblica, an Italian daily, said Pope Francis -- with whom he has had several telephone conversations and face-to-face meetings -- invited him to his residence March 27.
During their conversation, Scalfari, 93, an avowed atheist, claims the pope said that while the souls of repentant sinners "receive the forgiveness of God and go among the line of souls who contemplate him, the souls of those who are unrepentant, and thus cannot be forgiven, disappear."
"Hell does not exist, the disappearance of sinful souls exists," Scalfari claims the pope said in the interview published March 29.
The Italian journalist has explained on more than one occasion that he does not take notes or record his conversations with the pope; he re-creates them afterward from memory, including the material he puts in quotation marks.
The Vatican issued a statement soon after the article was published, saying the pope did receive Scalfari "in a private meeting" to exchange Easter greetings, but he did not "give him an interview."
im reading surface detail by iain m banks right now and im pretty sure that the pope's wrong about this one
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i for one support heresy pope. hell is a really stupid idea and deleting all the fuckboys when they die makes more sense
hell is real
it's your psots
L. Ron Hubbard is the true god... there is no hell... Battlefield Earth shoulda been a Tyler Perry movie
it's really freaky to me that bad religion are completely indistinguishable in sound, attitude and comportment from white bread christian faux punk rockers except for their lyrical content, and even then sometimes it still gets a little blurry
bad religion are the best at being shocking and transgressive because nobody expects to hear "pokemon go to the polls. i'm with her" at a punk show
It is thine......post????