Wow, now this is interesting.
In another interview with his longtime atheist friend, Eugenio Scalfari, Pope Francis claims that Hell does not exist and that condemned souls just "disappear." 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.
https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/pope-francis-there-no-hell