The Vatican has scrambled to clarify comments made by Pope Francis to a well-known Italian journalist denying the existence of hell.

“A hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of sinning souls exists,” allegedly said the Pope, among other curious things.

The Holy See issued a terse statement stating that a lengthy article published in La Repubblica on Wednesday by Eugenio Scalfari, the newspaper’s founder and an atheist, was “the fruit of his reconstruction” and not “a faithful transcription of the Holy Father’s words”. Scalfari parries that was a direct quote.

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