The Pope said that sinners were not punished in the afterlife but simply disappeared, according to the Italian press EPAHell, it turns out, is not a fiery pit of eternal damnation. Rather, the punishment for sinners upon death is simply that they disappear. This apparent invalidation of 2,000 years of Roman Catholic teaching comes from no less an authority than the Pope, according to a recent visitor to the Vatican who chewed the theological fat with Francis. “Hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of the souls of sinners exists,” Francis is said to have told Eugenio Scalfari, an Italian newspaper columnist. The comment came by way of…

Source: The Times March 29, 2018 22:52 UTC