The images are gorgeous. They are also obscure. Which is to say, very few Jewish teachers would offer them to their students. What about — gulp — hell? Does Judaism believe in that? Well, yes ...

Heaven and hell. After Vatican II ... These are limited, anthropological images, of course. But they help us to see that understanding God’s love does not entail treating God as cozy, ...

St. John Bosco on Heaven. St. John Bosco, known as Don Bosco, wrote of his vision of heaven on Dec. 6, 1876. He said that “all was blue as the calmest sea, though what I saw was not water …” ...