For centuries, followers of many religions have thought about a happy afterlife that was "up" there somewhere. But is it a physical place or something that is more nebulous?Getty Images The Hubble ...

Q: When a loved one dies, we miss them for the rest of our lives. What happens when we die and go to heaven? Do we miss those who we leave behind? Heaven promises us complete happiness, but I can’t ...

As we listen to the first lesson this morning, we could easily have been impressed -- and I think should have been impressed -- by how God was careful to watch over the prophet Elijah. We can consider ...

Sunday, Nov. 6, is the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14; Psalm 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15; 2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5; Luke 20:27-38 or Luke 20:27, 34-38. In the readings today ...

At Christmastime, we’re surrounded by sights and sounds that remind us not only that God loves us but also all of his creation. It was Psalm 98 that sent the English poet Isaac Watts to his desk in ...

Excerpted from “The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery.” For most of recorded history, human beings situated ...

Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and professor at Vanderbilt University, is the author of the new book And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle As the world’s ...

The idea of life after death has long fascinated humanity, as many are concerned about what happens to our souls when we die. Some religions, including Christianity, teach the essential part of a ...

Is there a pet door on the Pearly Gates? During his weekly address in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis comforted a young boy who was distraught over the recent death of his dog by telling him, "One ...