At the end of our earthly lives, our faith tells us there will be four last things: death, judgment, hell and heaven.

To better understand Purgatory in the light of Christ's sacrifice of ... a more interesting point is that Jesus after His death did not go immediately to heaven. According to the Epistle of ...

COMMENTARY: In the modern era, the Catholic Church has not sufficiently taught or stressed the Four Last Things in the ...

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In the New Testament, Jesus Christ refers to this event when he says ... Yet, Milton also shows the consequences of Lucifer's ...

If the Christ Child were not divine, then this Gospel passage would present idolatry in a positive light. Later Jesus even allows ... not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son but only the ...

His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became white as the light. Suddenly ... same voice which had been heard at the Jordan at the Baptism of Christ, testifying to the Divinity of Jesus and ...

In this light, one learns how to look at ... It is assuredness of a place in heaven and purpose on earth. Being saved means having a personal, transforming relationship with Jesus Christ. It means ...

At the same time, I recognize that for many Christians, examples of persecution can feel distant, abstract, unrelatable, or ...

Moreover, all of the great themes of Jesus' preaching are struck in the parables. Perhaps no part of the Gospels, then, can better put us into touch with the mind of Jesus Christ than the parables.