The English poet John Milton grappled with this question in his famous epic, Paradise Lost, first published in 1667. And Alan ...

Paradise is open to all of God's creatures." Of course, this viewpoint goes against the conservative Catholic ideology that because animals don't have souls (!), they can't go to heaven.

"God's dwelling place, heaven, will also be forever. No doubter, skeptic or opposition can ever take heaven away from God," said Pastor Jesse Bradley. (iStock) ...

Heaven was also charged with positive emotions: peace, joy, love, and the bliss of spiritual fulfillment that Christians came to refer to as the Beatific Vision, the presence of God.

Heaven is a safe place. Heaven is fun, full of color, filled with angels, a good place to visit and the house of God. That’s what some kids at St. Ann Roman Catholic School in West Palm Beach… ...

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives is magisterially deranged. A Danish filmmaker already halfway to abstract expressionism (Valhalla Rising, Drive) now all but completes his journey.

We know precisely when this story of projecting our lack into the sky began: 165 B.C., patented by the ancient Jews. Until then, heaven— shamayim —was the home of God and his angels.

Her childbearing virginity represents the existence of paradise, in which matter is penetrated with grace and conquers the laws of nature by the laws of love. Her purity that gives birth to Life is a ...

The Pope, speaking earlier this week, offered his assurance of four-legged angels to the grieving child. “Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures,” he said during the weekly papal address.

If heaven is understood more as God’s space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the ...