The Catholic Church has long held that saints are in communion with God after death, says Mary Catherine Hilkert, ... Heaven Is Waiting; Hell Is A Different Question, ...

Satire of heaven and hell by ex-Catholic author. By Joe Meyers Dec 5, 2013. Stamford writer Joe Wenke critiques and satirizes many of the tenets of the Catholic Church in his new book "Papal Bull." ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” ...

Sent by his religious order to Hong Kong to share the Gospel in Asia, one Catholic priest's missionary work is raising hell -- but not with the Chinese Communist Party.

Msgr. Pope also addressed Jesus’ teachings through the 38 parables cited in the Bible in his book, noting that 21of the parables deal with the reality of heaven and where sins lead.

As many Catholic characters in movies and novels attested, a basic reason to be Catholic was “so I won’t go to hell.” The Catholic faith, in their view, ... Heaven and hell.

“Heaven and hell in the Catholic tradition are not places, but they are conditions beyond space or time,” he said. These conditions can occur in this life, as well as the next.

That so many Catholics are willing to talk as though the desire to attain heaven and avoid hell is some sort of prissy fussiness is a serious indictment of Catholic formation and of our ...

National Catholic Register, Apr 7, 2025 / 10:07 am. Many people underestimate the reality of hell and the possibility they may end up there, pastor and author Monsignor Charles Pope said.

John Nassivera’s “On Faith” columns in The Times Argus and Rutland Herald are, as a rule, thoughtful, scholarly and enjoyable reflections, written from a Roman Catholic perspective, on the role ...

Mr. Walther is the editor of The Lamp, a Catholic literary journal, and a contributing Opinion writer. It is one of those strange accidents of history that the best film ever made about the Roman ...

Meanwhile, 82% of evangelical Protestants and members of historically black Protestant churches say they believe in hell. Somewhat fewer Catholics, Mormons, mainline Protestants and Orthodox ...