Why do bad things happen? It's a question that sooner or later, almost every person asks. Or, in times of intense sorrow or anger, someone invariably says: “How could God let anything so terrible happen?” These and similar cries of anguish are different expressions of one essential question: If God…

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As a war-torn world lurches to the 21st century, a sympathetic witness from the 4th century offers advice and comfort. This past February, during a six-day meeting that The New York Times called “a summit on the universe,” the world's leading cosmologists were told that their scenario of cosmic…

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Last summer, Pope John Paul II threw a figurative pail of cold water on the popular image of hell as a place of unending flame. His statement followed an article on the subject in La Civilta Cattolica, a Jesuit magazine believed to have close ties to the Vatican. The article said that hell is not a…

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