On Oct. 26, Rebekah Laue received the call from Jesus. “Come home, my beloved daughter. You’ve been faithful with the task I gave you. You’ve given selfless love and asked little in ...

Sunday, Nov. 17, is the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: Daniel 12:1-3; Psalm 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11; Hebrews 10:11-14, 18; Mark 13:24-32. In today’s Gospel, Jesus is atop the Mount of Olives ...

The Journal Star received 30 responses about people's visions of heaven. Some were lengthy, quoting the Book of Revelations and other biblical passages; others detailed personal experiences - emotions ...

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 ...

Is heaven for real? And if so, which heaven? For some, heaven is the Christian kind of afterlife that was described by a 4-year-old boy in the book and movie titled "Heaven Is for Real." For others, ...

Jesus rebukes them, because life in heaven is not like the world, and whether someone is widowed once or twice or seven times does not matter for their heavenly existence. We know this; we know that ...

“Heaven Is for Real,” “90 Minutes in Heaven,” “Proof of Heaven.” All are books that tell the story of people – a 3-year-old boy, a Christian minister, a Charlotte-born neurosurgeon – who claim they ...

Ehrman is a leading authority on the New Testament and the history of early Christianity, and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including the just published Heaven and Hell. He is a ...

When we think of the Passion of our Lord or make the Stations of the Cross, one image that should come into our mind’s eye is the Sixth Station — St. Veronica wiping the face of Jesus to comfort him.