Pope Francis stirred up controversy with an informal remark concerning hell that he made Jan. 14 in an hourlong live interview with a popular Italian television program. While acknowledging that this ...

In the history of the Catholic Church various saints and blesseds have described what hell is like and even exactly where “bad Christians” would be placed, based on visions and messages they received ...

Rebecca F. Kuang was in the middle of pursuing her doctorate at Yale when she heard people around her joking that “academia is hell.” “ So being me, I took that very literally and I thought, ‘What if ...

St. Faustina Kowalska said that in hell ‘there are caverns and torture pits where each type of agony differs from the other.’ In the history of the Catholic Church, various saints and blesseds have ...