On March 15, 2015, a new interview with Bergoglio was published, conducted by the Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari – an atheist.

According to his account, Bergoglio said the following:

What happens to the condemned soul? Will it be punished? And how? – asked Scalfari

The answer of Antipope Francis is explicit and unequivocal:

There is no punishment; rather, such a soul is destroyed. All the others will share in the happiness of being in the presence of the Father. Annihilated souls will not take part in that feast; with the death of the body their journey has come to an end, and the very motive of the Church’s missionary activity is the saving of perishing souls. For this reason also Antipope Francis is, after all, a Jesuit.

The Vatican did not deny the content of the interview, but merely pushed it into the category of a “private conversation” of Bergoglio.

Adding that Scalfari did not quote Antipope Francis verbatim, but recalled him from memory. This weak attempt to discredit the interview only underscores its reliability and precision.

Let us consider the following quotations from Holy Scripture:

Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting FIRE which was prepared for the devil and his angels. (Matt 25, 41)

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, they shall have their portion in the pool BURNING WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, which is the second death. (Apoc 21, 8)

So shall it be at the end of the world. The angels shall go out, and shall separate the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. (Matt 13, 49-50)

And fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in HELL. (Matt 10, 28)

as well as the following pronouncements of the Magisterium of the Church:

Council of Florence:

The souls of those, however, who depart in actual mortal sin, or in original sin alone, descend immediately into hell, yet to be punished with different punishments.

Athanasian Creed:

At His coming all men shall rise again with their bodies and shall give an account of their own works: and they that have done good shall go into life everlasting, but they that have done evil into everlasting fire.

Fourth Lateran Council:

Christ will come … and will render to each according to his works, both to the reprobate and to the elect. All of them will rise with their own bodies, which they now bear, to receive according to their works, whether good or evil; the latter perpetual punishment with the devil, the former everlasting glory with Christ.

Benedict XII declared in 1336:

… by Apostolic authority we define… that according to the general disposition of God, the souls of those who die in actual mortal sin descend immediately after death into hell, where they suffer infernal punishments. Nevertheless, on the Day of Judgment all men will appear before the tribunal of Christ in their bodies to render an account of their deeds….

First Council of Lyons:

Furthermore, if anyone dies in mortal sin without repentance, he undoubtedly suffers forever the torments of the everlasting fire of hell.

Pope Innocent III:

Furthermore, if anyone dies in mortal sin without repentance, he undoubtedly suffers forever the torments of the everlasting fire of hell.

Pope Pelagius I:

But the wicked, remaining by their own choice vessels of wrath fitted for destruction [Rom. 9, 22], who either have not known the way of the Lord, or knowing it have abandoned it, being seized by various sins, He will by a most just judgment deliver over to the punishment of everlasting and unquenchable fire, in which they shall burn without end.