That’s the media spin from a botched translation.
For this interested in the truth, here’s the official Catholic position. But it takes a long and careful read since its a finely crafted piece of theological scholarship by the theological Einstein of our times: Pope Benedict XVI when he was Cardinal Ratzinger:
http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdfunici.htm
I don’t know how a letter Francis sends to atheists telling them to follow their conscience can be spun another way.