The Smithsonian African Art Museum’s newest exhibition invites visitors to descend from heaven, through purgatory and into hell. Spanning all four levels of the museum, “The Divine Comedy ...

Traditionally, Christians believed that Heaven and ... them forever to Hell, but also that most people are not pure and good enough to go to Heaven straight away. For them, Purgatory is the ...

1 Peter 1:7 Another commonly misunderstood teaching of the Church concerns Purgatory ... Now this "prison" is surely not heaven, nor can it be hell since the souls in hell could not benefit ...

the doctrine of purgatory sets Catholics apart from other Christian professions. While all Christians acknowledge the Four Last Things — heaven, hell, death and judgment — only Catholics ...

A. The rewards or punishments appointed for men's souls after the Particular Judgment are Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell. Q. 1379. What is Hell? A. Hell is a state to which the wicked are condemned ...

Fans traded what felt like modern hell for a fictional ... Regret,” stating, “Heaven’s for those who let go of regret,” encapsulating the journey through Purgatory. As Dante ascends ...

Hell is the opposite of Heaven - it is eternity in the absence of God. In the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, the rich man describes Hell as a place of torment. The rich man also died and was ...

Most of us aim for heaven and hope to avoid hell, but rarely do we think about that other option: purgatory. Purgatory seems to come up more often in television shows or classic literature than in ...

Different interpretations of judgement, heaven, hell and purgatory as physical, spiritual or psychological realities; objective immortality in process thought. Articles and Podcasts The Tablet ...