Paul Thigpen, retired theology professor, discusses the questions, 'Do animals have a soul and do they go to heaven?

A Catholic Case and Why It Matters,' Christopher Steck, S.J., faces the ethical tensions within the Roman Catholic tradition ...

(RNS) — The Rev. Terry Martin wrote his book after his own suffering in silence connected him, he says, to the suffering of animals. (RNS) — The Rev. Terry Martin had served large, busy Catholic ...

(CNN) — Can animals go to heaven? Some people all over the world have been excited in recent days about reports by news agencies worldwide — including one from CNN — declaring that Pope Francis ...

A Tennessee megachurch is facing backlash after pastors used live animals on stage to illustrate a sermon on Sunday. The Cornerstone Nashville church used a cougar, lion, mountain lion, a ram and ...

The question of whether animals will join us in the afterlife finally has a definitive response from Rome. It’s a topic that’s been long debated, with Popes weighing in unofficially on both sides.

Update: It turns out that Pope Francis did not say that animals are going to heaven. Paul VI said it. The illuminating tale of how this supposed quote ended up on the front page of The New York Times ...

Corrections & Clarifications: New information refutes reports Pope Francis said animals go to heaven. Those remarks were once made by Pope Paul VI. Reports also call into question whether John Paul II ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Pope Francis has once again made people ...