Pretty sure he's said something similar in the past, and it's also not like it was a poorly translated comment to an interviewer either. Kinda hard to walk back something you wrote in an open letter to a newspaper (that was almost certainly vetted by various aspects of the Vatican as well).
Its all kind of condescending if you ask me...like a snotty country club looking down on the public course golfers..."The world needs Atheists/Agnostics/Non Papists too..."
The biggest problem with the concept of Heaven is the sanctimonious jerks who think they will be there. Imagine how they will judge there after the way they judge here, no matter what the Bible attempts to teach them.
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