I wonder why Francis continues to give interviews where there is no docuмentation. This is not the first time the Vatican has had to do damage control on something that has come out of his loose lips. If he truly cared about being misquoted then I would think he would make darn sure it couldn't happen [yet again] by having an audio back-up.
There's already a
CathInfo topic on Hell & souls as imagined by "Francis", by which "Mr G" won
priority-of-origination with ‘"THERE IS NO HELL" -- new Francis revelation’, almost 7 hours earlier (10:01:02 CDT) on Holy Thursday, as grabbed from a posting on
Rorate Cæli (by their own "New Catholic" on March 29, 2018). To their credit, the needlessly duplicated
CathInfo topics were
originated in (sub)forums where each was a defensible fit, his being in "Crisis in the Church".
Maybe Matthew would kindly merge these 2 topics for us?
I particularly recommend these replies there:
#23 Ladislaus:
March 30, 2018, 20:09:26, which addresses the issue of Vatican putative "damage control" on "interviews where there is
no docuмentation".
#29 Neil Obstat:
April 01, 2018, 16:10:06, who examined the
logical possibilities of the situation created by the opinionated combination of "Francis" and his atheist retired-editor chum Eugenio Scalfari. It's ironically an
excellent refutation of the collected excuses in that
topic's reply #32 that robotically
followed Neil more than a
day later.
#32 poche:
April 03, 2018, 03:49:15, grabbed from an excuse-fest by a Hannah Brockhaus at <
www.catholicnewsagency.com> (Vatican City, Mar 29, 2018 08:21), which apparently tries to set the bar for
minimum credibility way up at
exact quotes by "Francis", and apparently is trying to lead readers to infer mere paraphrases can't possibly convey beliefs or ideas accurately. As if there's
only 1 way in Italian to convey the ideas "there is no Hell" and "disappearance of sinful souls". At the end of the article, Brockhaus' words as posted by poche had
failed to expose any flaws in Neil's examination or logic.