Well, this begs the question of what happened to all the people that I thought were going to hell or deserved to go.....
@mystery-ak Every church on earth is run by humans. Humans screw up. No human is the church. Many try to denigrate a church based on human error, which happens all the time. So, the Pope is not the church; he is a human elected to the highest office in the church. Nothing he says affects my membership in the Catholic Church - my faith does not depend on him.
He could come forth and directly speak to these quotes of his and settle the matter, but he appears to be relying on the spokesman of the church to do that, which was not a definitive answer as to whether he said it or not. Leaving this hanging does not serve him well. This is his problem to handle and has nothing to do with my going to church this Easter.
As for hell: Jesus says it is there and I believe Him rather than the human Pope. Perhaps the human Pope should read the New Testament if he truly thinks there is no hell.