A few weeks ago, a friend asked me why Jesus did not go to the abode of the damned during the time between His Crucifixion
Everyone but atheists wants to know what the afterlife will be like. Athests seem to think that you just cease to exist when you die,
Last month I wrote about American heroes, especially comic book heroes. I think these heroes inspired American youth with positive influences for good. I didn’t
Our Lord tells us through sacred scripture, as well as through conscience, that we are responsible for the choices we make. Our choices determine who
We often hear people comforting a grieving friend or loved one at a wake or funeral say, “He (or she) is in heaven with Jesus
Each year in September, at the start of Faith Formation classes, I begin the very first class by asking the students, “Why do we exist?
As my son, Henry, and I were returning from a seminar on “The harvest is ripe, but the laborers few” (Mt.9:35-38 NAB), he asked me,
Our culture recognizes the physical world and has developed a detailed study of it through observation and experimentation. There is also a spiritual world that
God’s mercy and justice are perfect. And therein lays a conundrum for some. Just how, they wonder, does perfect mercy and justice work? In our
On Good Friday we remember the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ, and on Easter Sunday we celebrate his Resurrection from the dead – but
Many people argue that God is not going to send those who refuse to love Him and obey Him to everlasting hell like He has
One never learns what evil is promoted in our country until one is finally confronted with it. Here is the current law for education of
The four last things: Death, Judgment, Hell, and Heaven. These are the things that our souls are progressing toward daily, as our earthly life moves
How did the precepts of ethics and morality, based on the Ten Commandments and the “Golden Rule”, become a pariah to so many? How did
The Patrick Coffin Show podcast features weekly interviews with A-list influencers and outliers in the effort to recover the Judeo-Christian roots of the culture. Patrick
The answer to the question, “Will everyone be saved?”, would appear to be simply a matter of fact, yes or no. But, is it? The
Say the words “afterlife” and “fire”, and I’d bet that ninety-nine out of a hundred will automatically think, “Hell”. But why? Consider the vision of
Recently, I was considering the reasons people give for rejecting religion, specifically Christianity. A pretty common refrain seems to be that most do not want
I hate John Lennon’s song “Imagine.” The song begins, “Imagine there’s no heaven, it’s easy if you try, no hell below us, above us only
I have lived almost 53 years on this earth and just now I think I am really starting to “get it.” I don’t mean I
Many in the Church have made serious assertions that we can have a reasonable hope that at the Final Judgement Hell will be empty –
If I had to pick one thing I don’t love about being Catholic, the proof for the existence of Hell would be one of the