
The Fires of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory: Are They Exactly The Same?
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

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

Author’s Note: Recently, I had a conversation with a high school friend of mine, concerning how people rarely think about the reality of hell, and

We’ve all witnessed or experienced it. The screaming and squirming child that does everything in his power to thwart the parent’s efforts to love him