Delighted city dog owners agreed Friday with Pope Francis’ comforting comment to a distraught boy that the lad’s recently departed canine would be welcome in the hereafter. “That’s great!” said ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Widely circulated reports that Pope Francis said dogs could go to heaven were incorrect. Instead he said, "Holy Scripture teaches us that the fulfillment of this wonderful design also ...

John Lennon urged us: “Imagine there’s no heaven/ It’s easy if you try/ No hell below us/ Above us only sky …” Yet Americans aren’t turning to Lennonism any faster than Leninism. Today, 81 percent say ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday spoke about the hope Christians have at the end of life, which is found in God's promise to be with us at the moment of our death, and to give us eternal life with him in ...

Others within the faith, however, took the pontiff's words for what they were. "He said paradise is open to all creatures," Rev. James Martin, a Jesuit persist and editor at large of America, the ...