[DaveMSmith]

I wouldn’t trust this articles claims without checking.

I waited for a Catholic source before posting. This is all over the internet.

[Campion]

Just because something calls itself "Catholic" doesn't mean it's reliable or accurate. Any yahoo can set up a website and call it "Catholic fru-fru". You'll note that they're basically trying to tell you what they think the Pope meant, rather than quoting him verbatim.

Here are the Pope's actual words. The words "heaven", "salvation", and "saved" don't even appear in the text. How anyone could conclude from this that Pope thinks atheists can work their way to heaven ... beats me.

He's not the theologian BXVI was, I'll grant you, but give the man a little credit: he knows what Pelagianism is, and why it's wrong.