[Mrs. Don-o]

Yeah, it was also in the Oregonian. Meh.

I don't consider The Times of India to be uniquely incompetent. You can get the same sloppy reportage from the NYT and WaPo as well. And Reuters (Philip Pullella) is a particular egregious offender.

Why don't they even mention that all of Eugenio Scalfari's quotes are fabricated --- admittedly so, Scalfari concedes this freely.

So everything from sourced from Scalfari that begins with the words "Pope Francis stated" or the equivalent, followed by a supposedly direct quote, is journo-fiction. Of interest:

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Pope Francis' Letter to the Founder of "La Repubblica" Italian Newspaper (Zenit)

So I come to the three questions you put to me in the article of August 7. It seems to me that, in the first two, what is in your heart is to understand the attitude of the Church to those who don't share faith in Jesus. First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience. Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience.

Yes, Virginia, there is salvation outside the Catholic Church.

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Just another heresy from the hand of Bergoglio:

You also ask me, in conclusion of your first article, what we should say to our Jewish brothers about the promise made to them by God: has it all come to nothing? Believe me, this is a question that challenges us radically as Christians, because, with the help of God, especially since Vatican Council II, we have rediscovered that the Jewish people are still for us the holy root from which Jesus germinated. In the friendship I cultivated in the course of all these years with Jewish brothers in Argentina, often in prayer I also questioned God, especially when my mind went to the memory of the terrible experience of the Shoa. What I can say to you, with the Apostle Paul, is that God's fidelity to the close covenant with Israel never failed and that, through the terrible trials of these centuries, the Jews have kept their faith in God.