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On 29 March 2018, news outlets began reporting that during an interview, Pope Francis purported denied the existence of hell: The Vatican quickly stepped in to provide context and clarification about the story; the Catholic News Agency reported that it was not the first time La Repubblica's Eugenio Scalfari put those same words in the Pope's mouth, noting that the 93-year-old journalist had also claimed that Pope Francis had made comments denying the existence of hell in 2015, but that it was Scalfari's own reconstruction: Despite many headlines to the contrary, the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity, that immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, and that the chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs. John Allen, editor of the Catholic blog Crux, said that there is zero plausibility that the pontiff actually said what Scalfari claims, as Francis has a clear public record on the subject — he actually talks about Hell more frequently that any pope in recent memory, and he has never left any doubt that he regards it as a real possibility for one’s eternal destiny.
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