“POPE FRANCIS DID NOT SAY HELL DOES NOT EXIST, THE JOURNALIST WHO CONDUCTED THE INTERVIEW MISQUOTED HIM” – VATICAN SAYS
The Vatican on Thursday attempted to set the record straight on whether Pope Francis precluded the presence from claiming damnation in a meeting with a notable Italian writer. The discussion began when 93-year-old columnist Eugenio Scalfari, the organizer of La Repubblica daily paper, publisheda report that heasked Francis where "awful souls" wind up going, USA Today revealed. Francis' answer, as indicated by the columnist, was that the individuals who apologize could be excused however the individuals who don't, "vanish." The article, which kept running on March 29, detailed that Francis said "hellfire does not exist." "They are not rebuffed, the individuals who apologize get the absolution of God and enter the rank of souls who think about him, yet the individuals who don't atone and can't along these lines be pardoned vanish," Francis is cited as saying. "There is no heck, there is the vanishing of evil souls....