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[url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/catholic-church-confirms-atheists-still-go-to-hell-after-pope-francis-suggests-they-might-go-to-heaven-8634479.html]LOL okay talk about back peddling[/url]
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[quote]It has been widely reported that Pope Francis' comment that 'good' atheists will go to heaven has been 'corrected' by a Vatican 'spokesman'. Yet the Pope said nothing new, and Vatican proclaimed this obvious truth a long time ago. The Church has said for many decades that those who follow their consciences as best they can will be saved by God. The report about the so-called 'Vatican spokesman' stems from a secularist paper, and is a bad misunderstanding. Fr Roskia is a Canadian member of the Vatican press corps. This does not make him an official Vatican spokesman reprimanding the Pope on behalf of the whole institution. This is just another example of the media either deliberately or out of ignorance misrepresenting the Church.[/quote]-Comment from the article