Actually it is Pope Francis who spouts ridiculous nonsense every time he opens his mouth. See
Shocking Pope Francis Quotes
Here's one stupid quote about Hell as noted above:
Interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica 25, Mar 28, 2018: When asked where bad souls are punished, Francis replied: “They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls.”
People can't simply make this up. Francis is a heretic of the first order. We need to bring back the Spanish Inquisition for such people.
So you quote from an atheist who owns a communist newspaper who has a reputation for misquoting the Pope.
The confusion arises because he is
1) massively lied about, and
2) massively misunderstood.
And those things happen because many people won’t take the time to be fair and open-minded and read two sides of any given “controversy”. It’s very much like President Trump in that respect . . . It’s groupthink: sheep jumping on the bandwagon; clones . . . There is also the problem of the
“false narrative” that has been created.
The problem, then, seems to be that folks . . . aren’t willing in charity to withhold scathing judgment of the pope, until the full story of any given [almost always trumped-up] “incident” is heard. They’re lightning quick to judge. . . .
As with so many people today, otherwise good Catholics . . . have bought a cynical, hostile, outrageously false narrative regarding Pope Francis:
against which mere facts and reason — within this mentality — are oblivious and irrelevant, almost disallowed.
If someone doesn’t like my (or anyone else’s) defenses of the pope (and to me the defenses are perfectly plausible and sensible), they can go and knock themselves out showing that they are invalid, point-by-point.
But no one ever wants to do that, because that takes work and actual thinking, rather than the easy way out of the quick accusation, moaning and groaning, simply parroting the gossip of others, and furthering the false narrative about the Holy Father. Anything but actual rational analysis and interacting with different points of view.
I can understand someone being confused. There are many reasons for it. They might listen to the liberal media, or the radical reactionaries, or liberal Catholics who think the pope is one of them, or the increasing bandwagon chorus (among orthodox Catholics) of the pope’s detractors (what I have called “the [false] narrative”). They don’t study or don’t have time to.
Lots of folks are confused about Catholicism itself, and believe many lies about it. Is that
Catholicism‘s fault, too?
Lots of folks are confused about — and sometimes even downright distort and twist — the Bible. Is that the inspired, infallible
Bible‘s fault (God’s revelation) or
theirs? The cults don’t get it right. They can’t even grasp the obvious biblical teachings of
the divinity of Christ and the
Holy Trinity.
The Sad and Slanderous Promotion of a "False Narrative" Concerning Pope Francis' Supposedly Massive Errors I take on the boorish canard that "Pope Francis is so CONFUSING!" It's automatically assumed that he is to blame, not the critic. I show in many ways how this is a lie & shoddy thinking.
www.patheos.com
A top Italian daily did not accurately quote Pope Francis, the Vatican says.
www.bbc.com
A couple of months ago, on Holy Thursday, a stunning news report appeared in every media outlet around the world. A typical headline read: “Pope says there is no Hell.”
www.catholic365.com