Eventually all souls in Purgatory will go to heaven. St. Paul makes allusions to this in terms of fire in his Epistle to the Corinthians: Now if any one builds on the foundation with gold, ...

My cat recently passed and I am so hurt. I knew he was getting older and that Heaven was becoming a reality for him but I am ...

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Rabbi Marc Gellman fields questions about the afterlife and thoughts about the significance of Juneteenth in this week's God Squad column.

People in Ireland traditionally believed that on All Souls' Day, the souls of the dead would return to their families and speak to their descendants. November 2 is the Commemoration of All the ...

Matt Fraser discusses the concept that not all souls immediately ascend to what is traditionally considered Heaven. US Ally Intercepts Chinese Spy Ships Near Coast A failed Soviet Venus probe is ...

The attendance plummeted around a decade ago and the fabric of the single-storey structure started to deteriorate ...

Even if November 2 is All Souls’ Day in the Catholic liturgy, however, the local custom in the Philippines is to flock to cemeteries on November 1, All Saints’ Day.