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CNS News<\/strong><\/a>
March 30, 2018<\/p>\n

* This story has been\u00a0updated to include a statement from the Vatican (below).<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In another interview with his longtime atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis claims that Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just \u201cdisappear.\u201d This is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of Hell and the eternal existence of the soul.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The interview between Scalfari and the Pope was published March 28, 2018 in La Repubblica<\/em><\/a>. The relevant section on Hell was translated by the highly respected web log, Rorate Caeli<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The interview is headlined, \u201cThe Pope: It is an honor to be called revolutionary.\u201d (Il Papa: \u201c\u00c8 un onore essere chiamato rivoluzionario<\/a>.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Scalfari says to the Pope,\u00a0\u201cYour Holiness, in our previous meeting you told me that our species will disappear in a certain moment and that God, still out of his creative force, will create new species. You have never spoken to me about the souls who died in sin and will go to hell to suffer it for eternity. You have however spoken to me of good souls, admitted to the contemplation of God. But what about bad souls? Where are they punished?\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Francis says,\u00a0 \u201cThey are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Catechism of the Catholic Church<\/em> states: \u201cThe teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity<\/a>. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, \u2018eternal fire.\u2019\u00a0The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.\u201d (1035)