When Christians profess their faith in the Creed, they proclaim: “I believe in the resurrection of the flesh”, i.e. the resurrection of bodies. At the end of time, everyone will recover their resurrected body, which we call "glorified". What is the basis for this belief? What are the secrets of resurrected bodies?
Since purgatory is a preparatory stage to paradise, it would seem that we spend a certain amount of time there. But the most pressing question is: how much?
Purgatory belongs to the Catholic faith. However, aspects of it can be found in other cultures and religions, which affirm that purification is necessary after death.
Slamming doors, noisy shuffles, familars and other unexplained presence... the stories testifying of those strange, blood-curdling phenomena are countless. Are ghosts real? We asked don Paul Denizot, for the radio program RCF Sanctuaires normands.
It's possible to get through an ordeal. But what can you do when it takes hold: a long-term illness, bereavement, disability, a family rift? Interviewed for RCF Sanctuaires normands, Father Charles Lenoir, who has himself experienced burn-out, gives us 4 keys to overcoming the ordeal that lasts.
Can the damned, the very people whom, in our imagination, are roasting in the fires of hell, change their mind after all? Find out more with Rev. Fr. Thomas Lapenne who refreshes a few truths on what hell is about, and how the dramatic possibility of ending there out of one's free will engages one's responsibility in one's daily life.
« En dehors de l'Église, point de salut ». Cet adage apparaît pour beaucoup, en cette première moitié du XXIᵉ siècle, comme légèrement étroit d'esprit. Pour poser la question autrement : peut-on aller au ciel sans baptême ?
"It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God." The Gospel recommends not to get blinded by material goods but to rather seek prayer and humility instead…
Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified 5 stages experienced by the kin: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. Sister Cecilia would rather speak of the various “states” in mourning, because the course – or rather the courses – involved in mourning are not undeviating. Moreover, emotions can play hide and seek and often waiver from one to another as well as be overwhelming.
The resurrection has been debated ever since the beginning of the Church. Is the resurrection of the body a myth? What is the belief in the resurrection of the body grounded on? If Jesus rose from the dead, can we…