Snopes rated the claim “Pope Francis once said in an interview: “I like to think of hell as empty. I hope it is.”” Correct Attribution.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
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Captured 2026-08-15 from Snopes. The archived copy is preserved so this citation survives link rot.