Traditionally, Christians believed that Heaven and ... them forever to Hell, but also that most people are not pure and good enough to go to Heaven straight away. For them, Purgatory is the ...

Hell is the opposite of Heaven - it is eternity in the absence of God. In the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, the rich man describes Hell as a place of torment. The rich man also died and was ...

1 Peter 1:7 Another commonly misunderstood teaching of the Church concerns Purgatory ... Now this "prison" is surely not heaven, nor can it be hell since the souls in hell could not benefit ...

A. The rewards or punishments appointed for men's souls after the Particular Judgment are Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell. Q. 1379. What is Hell? A. Hell is a state to which the wicked are condemned ...

with art by Rodrigo Rocha, colors by Salvador Pocha, and letters by Dezi Sienty. In the first issue, a woman stuck in Purgatory is sent into Hell to try and rescue a soul and take them to Heaven.

A Catholic perspective on ghost stories reveals why some apparitions may be souls in Purgatory — and why the Church urges us ...