Heaven, right now, is where God is. It is the eternal, conscious presence of God, where the saints dwell in peace beyond the boundaries of time. Scripture suggests that those in heaven may glimpse the ...

"Disputà del Sacramento," Raphael 1509-1510, Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Museums, Rome. (Wikimedia Commons). “Don’t judge a book by its cover” is usually sound advice. But sometimes the cover can ...

Andrew Garfield as Detective Pyre in Under the Banner of Heaven Image Via FX The new FX detective series based on a real case, Under the Banner of Heaven, was a show that arrived with a high degree of ...

Just in time for high gift-giving season comes this lushly illustrated exploration of "paradise" in world religions. Written by a biblical scholar (Ashton) and a comparative religionist (Whyte), the ...

William Peter Blatty was pounding out the first pages of "The Exorcist" when his telephone rang – bringing the news that his mother had died. The screenwriter was already digging into dark material ...

Hell is the final guarantee that what we do here and now really matters: That’s the message Paul Thigpen gives in the book Saints Who Saw Hell: And Other Catholic Witnesses to the Fate of the Damned. ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Last week I wrote a column about people with near-death experiences and visions they had as death approached. A few readers were angry, dismissing the stories or even the idea of ...

Can a network become the victim of its own success? Long known for its “women-in-peril” movies, the Lifetime network has seen the formula escape the laboratory and spread throughout the broadcast and ...