The Catholic Church’s teaching on purgatory — the “cleansing fire” that prepares the elect for heaven — can be difficult to understand. But for one saint, the Catholic imperative to pray for the dead ...

In 1873, near the lighthouse in St. Augustine, Florida, the Pittee sisters were riding in a construction cart down to the water. In a tragic turn of events, the cart flipped, trapping the poor girls ...

The first millennial saint lived in the digital age: He had a computer, a flip phone and a PlayStation. Among practicing ...

On All Souls’ Day, the Catholic Church remembers all those who have died and prays for them in a particular way. But why do Catholics pray for the souls of the dead — not only on Nov. 2 but also on ...

I’m sure you can imagine my surprise, when in the Oct. 29 edition of “Religion Roundtable,” I discovered that a unique question of Catholic doctrine was posed to two protestant ministers in our ...

The doctrinal grounding of Dante’s mysterious mountain. Dante was the first writer to draw an elaborate map of Mount Purgatory, but he did not invent it. The idea of a place between death and heaven, ...