In the wake of personal tragedy, Paul Kim shares his witness about one of the most important Christian truths — one that’s all too easy to forget.
In Heaven, we will truly be one, big, happy family, where all of our tears will be wiped away and our longings for friendship will be fulfilled.
The modern world presents many ways to find happiness, but what the world proposes is often fleeting and does not satisfy the yearning in our hearts.
"Save me, O God, for the waters have risen to my neck."
Thomas Aquinas offers some clarity about what our glorified bodies will be like ... so does the singer Patty Griffin.
I once had a philosophy teacher who told the class that, no matter what we do, the goal is contemplation - a contemplative handyman, a contemplative mother, a contemplative factory worker …
When we look forward to the new heavens and the new earth, we should be inspired to work diligently now in the time and place God has placed us.
In 1888, Vincent Van Gogh walked into the town of Les Alycamps, looking for beauty amid the squalor. Here's why I love the paintings he made there.
The actor spoke with the NYT about his 2020 brush with death ... but he's missing some Shakespeare
Invisible to our eyes, the entire heavenly court of angels and saints are right beside us, cheering us on and hoping that we will make the right choices.
It is very beneficial for our souls to think and dream about Heaven, pondering what it will be like and how beautiful and perfect it is.
The earth as we know it will pass away, making way for the new Heavens and the new Earth, where all of our deepest longings will be met and fulfilled.
At every single Mass all those who participate on earth are at the same time spiritually united to all the saints currently in Heaven.
After attending a marriage conference in Italy, I have a lot to ponder. So did the Sadducees.
The Catechism says that even though the kingdom “has come in Christ's death and Resurrection,” it still “lies ahead of us.”
The Bible doesn't give us exact coordinates as to where Jesus ascended into heaven, and so theologians have wrestled with this topic for centuries.
While it can be easy to think of heaven as a physical place where God lives on a throne, the Catholic view of Heaven is much different.
