1 Peter 1:7 Another commonly misunderstood teaching of the Church concerns Purgatory. Purgatory is not a second-chance for damned souls to repent. Instead it is a state of cleansing and ...

"You … must be perfect," Jesus insisted, "as your heavenly Father is perfect" (Mt 5:48). Without such perfect holiness, ...

Father Jim Livingston, the pastor of St. Paul in Ham Lake, notes that there’s a lot of Catholic humor around the concept of ...

As Nov. 2, All Souls’ Day, the commemoration of all the faithful departed, nears, we ask the good and merciful Lord to grant ...

In a pointedly absurd moment in the novel, Augie March tells of a blind beggar he saw in a Naples seafood market toward the ...

A number of western states started seeing snowfall in September. Skiers and boarders are anticipating a fabulous season, ...

On All Souls Day, and every day, there is one visitor to purgatory that the souls there especially long to see.

“If you just take a step back and think, if you lose your spouse, if you’re the primary financial provider and you no longer ...

Eighty-seven-year-old Leonard Slonsky is caught in legal purgatory. For now at least, he lives in a Stark County nursing home under a court order.

Sega is working on a new Virtua Fighter game for the first time since 2006, giving the first-ever fighting game series a chance to retrieve some of its original sparkle. New global head of ...

A former ticket office employee at Purgatory Resort has been sentenced to two years probation for embezzling more than $15,000 from the ski area, according to court records. Tyler Hollingsworth ...

The Durango Winter Sports Club and the Durango Nordic Ski Club are bringing back the Durango Winter Sports Hall of Fame after ...