It comes after the Pope was sensationally quoted as saying that hell does not exist and souls not worthy of heaven merely disappear instead of being tormented. But the Vatican quickly denied the apparent dramatic theological shift, accusing atheist reporter Eugenio Scalfari of 'reconstructing' his words.
Catholic teaching dictates that 'immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell'.
Scalfari, 93, in his fifth interview of Pope Francis published in La Repubblica, asked what happened to 'bad souls' after their bodies died. 'They 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,' he quoted the Pope as replying. 'There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls.'
The Vatican on Thursday said the Italian journalist and the Pope had a private meeting but claimed it was 'without giving him any interview'....read more>>>...
ALITD Opinion: "Interestingly he refers to souls and not spirits. Disappearing souls? Sounds very Gnostic. Souls are linked to this fake reality and will technically disappear once the observer loses its connection with the false self/soul. The reference to the entering the ranks of those who contemplate him is very archonic/demiurge ... worship the creator of the false reality to keep your fake soul, as the demiurge doesn't want any observer learning the truth about this reality. Those that don't .. well they will be banished from being allowed to ever enter this computer simulation again. Bit of a slip up really, as it shows that The Vatican knows the truth about this 'reality'.