When you read the word heaven you see light, pure peace, fulfilment. When you read hell you recoil: darkness, torment, isolation. We instinctively place them at opposite ends of the spiritual spectrum ...

St. Faustina Kowalska said that in hell ‘there are caverns and torture pits where each type of agony differs from the other.’ In the history of the Catholic Church, various saints and blesseds have ...

Pope Francis stirred up controversy with an informal remark concerning hell that he made Jan. 14 in an hourlong live interview with a popular Italian television program. While acknowledging that this ...