RWNJ
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Matt. 25:46, “And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” The word for everlasting and eternal are the same word, “aionios.” Just as Heaven is a location, and everlasting, so is hell.This is a denial of the 2,000-year-old teaching of the Catholic Church about the reality of Hell and the eternal existence of the soul.
Pope Francis says,
"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."
Pope Francis: 'There Is No Hell' ...
I fear you did not understand what he said - if he said this at all. To be separated from god = hell = to disappear. It's still an irreversible process and not a second chance (rebirth) or a cleaning process (purgatory). The tortures in hell are anyway only a kind of embellishment of the "torture" to be separated from god.
From my point of view it's the most easy to follow still the doctrine of the Athanasian creed, if someone likes to be sure to be on the right way: " ... And they that have done good shall go into life everlasting; and they that have done evil, into everlasting fire. ..."
The Pope said:
On the existence of Hell, Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, founder of the left-wing daily La Repubblica and a self-professed non-believer, described himself asking Francis what happens to the souls of sinners, and specifically, where they are punished. He then quoted the pope as follows:
“They’re not punished. Those who repent obtain forgiveness and enter the ranks of those who contemplate him, but those who don’t repent and can’t be forgiven disappear. A Hell doesn’t exist, what exists is the disappearance of sinning souls.”
Vatican says interview in which Pope doubts Hell not a 'faithful transcript'
So given the penchant for journalists to "interpret" what they think... maybe Scalifari's Italian translation is missing.
Also, why would Hell last forever if peoples souls are destroyed?