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, ...

Sent by his religious order to Hong Kong to share the Gospel in Asia, one Catholic priest's missionary work is raising hell — ...

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." ...

“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.

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.

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 ...

While the Catholic Church’s position on hell does not exactly spell out a ZIP code for the fiery furnace, ... “If there’s no hell, then heaven is no big deal.

Yet when it comes to the actual hell and heaven, in the same survey Pew found “many Americans believe in an afterlife where suffering either ends entirely or continues in perpetuity.”. Pew ...

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 ...