Good news: The pope believes in Hell. Bad news: He doesn’t necessarily believe it’s a literal place, but a “state of eternal separation from God,” to be understood “symbolically rather than physically.” (Note: Hell is not eternal separation from God, it’s the very real presence of God’s wrath present in Hell. It is though, total
This is an answer given to the following question posed at TimesOnline, an eMag from the U.K.: “Where, in the opinion of our religious leaders and their followers, is Heaven or Paradise situated?” Toward the end of the 19th century Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, (the organisation behind the
Mark Twain said: Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven and hell; and I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.
Technically this is not a “Sudden Death” story, and probably not even an “(Almost) Sudden Death” story… Cardinal Francis George,the archbishop of Chicago, was hospitalized with a slight hip fracture after he apparently slipped on some holy water that splashed on the floor while he was blessing Easter baskets. The archbishop landed squarely on his
“There are two kinds of Christians, soul-winners and backsliders.” Click here for brief bio. (Honoring the dead: then and now… and an Archbishop slips on Holy water… Monday…)