Everyone is forced to confront the question: what happens when we die?
Some people say “nothing”—our bodies just decompose, and we cease to exist.
But Christians believe death is not the end. It’s followed by an afterlife, a life after this life, in which we’ll spend eternity with God, or apart from him.
People have criticized this belief up and down the centuries as naïve or anti-scientific or “opium for the masses,” designed to soothe those who are suffering on earth.
But there are good reasons to believe there is something else after death.
Since Lent is traditionally a time to reflect on the “Last Things”—death, judgment, Heaven, and Hell—that’s what we’ll be doing through this short video series.
Watch the first video to learn more about death and what follows:
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Can science define all reality? What are some example of reality that science can’t define?
How do the doctrines of heaven and hell appeal to our sense of justice?
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Does God really send people to Hell?
Hell is out of favor these days. Maybe that’s because of the rise in atheism, or the widespread belief that we are all basically good people and there is no such thing as sin.
Yet the Catholic Church continues to affirm that Hell exists and is a real possibility for each one of us.
But what...
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Why Purgatory is actually a good thin...
The word “purgatory” usually makes people nervous. It suggests a dark and gloomy limbo.
But as C.S. Lewis observed, Purgatory is simply “the washroom of Heaven.”
It’s the place people go, after they die, if they are saved by God but not yet purified for Heaven.
But how does Purgatory wor...
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What can we know about angels?
Each Sunday at Mass, we say the Creed, affirming our belief in “things visible and invisible.”
What do we mean by “invisible” things? Certainly God, souls, Heaven, and Hell.
But also angels. Angels reside in Heaven and serve God, as we all hope to do after death.
Watch this short video t...
