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, ...

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.

It’s basic human decency. 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 ...

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." ...

Fortunately, we have today the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which reliably hands on the constant Church teaching about the Four Last Things (death, judgment, heaven and hell). We need to know ...

Monsignor Mannion, a priest in the Catholic Dioceses of Salt Lake, spoke about heaven and hell from a Catholic viewpoint. “Heaven and hell in the Catholic tradition are not places, but they are ...

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 ...

Most Americans more or less believe that “hell is other people ... “one true faith” leading to heaven. Protestants are more than twice as likely as Catholics to say that their faith ...

Such anxieties were hardly limited to Catholics — many observers have ... being in many conventional religious dramas — but heaven and hell. In the interview in 1973, Mr. Friedkin discussed ...

Jesus did not come, nor did he send forth his followers, to proclaim new places, which we now call heaven and hell. He came to proclaim the advent of a person, himself. Some have suggested that ...

This is what informs the decision about whether they are sent to Heaven, Purgatory or Hell. Many Catholics believe that all Christians will eventually go to Heaven and that the good followers of ...