Vatican denies Pope Francis said hell doesn't exist

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According to Scalfari’s article in Thursday’s La Repubblica, he asked the pope where “bad souls” go and where they are punished. .
This is the third time the Vatican has issued statements distancing itself from Scalfari’s articles about the Pope.
Eugenio Scalfari, 93, an avowed atheist who has struck up an intellectual friendship with Francis, met the pope recently and wrote up a long story.

A journalist, who quoted Pope Francis as saying hell does not exist, did not interview the world leader of the Catholic Church, The Vatican has said.

In statement, The Vatican said comments by the well-known Italian journalist spread on social media, did not properly reflect what the Pope had said.