In this year celebrating the virtue of Christian hope, may the words and example of Pope Francis in the midst of suffering ...

When Prince Vladimir of Kiev converted to Christ in AD 988, he wished to bring the gift of the Catholic faith to all ... "We did not know whether we were in heaven or on earth.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC): All who die ... so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final ...

Protestant and Anglican churches simplified the concept of eternal salvation to either heaven (salvation) or hell (damnation). The main difference came into play when the Catholic Church added ...

Failing to attend or celebrate Mass is not just skipping a religious obligation -- it is a sign that one's spiritual hunger is withering, the preacher of the papal household warn ...

This year's Los Angeles Religious Education Congress was a timely infusion of Catholic prayer and social teaching, writes ...

In a Catholic funeral several symbols are used ... Incense is used as a reminder and sign that the prayers being offered are rising to Heaven to God as well as the soul of the deceased.

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 ...

A scholar of global Catholicism writes how Francis has opened the church to the outside world in ways no pope had done before.