After the loss of a pet, many people wonder whether they’ll ever see their beloved companions again. In her course, “Do All Dogs Go to Heaven?”, Chelsea Jordan King, an assistant professor of Catholic ...

(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 ...

Americans are reexamining humans’ relationship to the natural world. It’s changing their spiritual beliefs and practices, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In my last column, I wrote about St. Francis and the Blessing of the Animals for his feast day in ...

We had to put our 12-year-old, 100-pound, Labrador retriever down on Wednesday. She had reached a point where her hind legs would not work. Alley is the third Lab we have been forced to relieve ...

Dec. 20, 2005 — -- Nearly nine out of 10 people in the United States say they believe in heaven, according to a recent ABC News poll. But what exactly do people think of when they think of an ...

In our fast-paced human world, it’s easy to forget that for our dogs, every moment with us is their whole world. Dogs don't worry about the future or dwell on the past—they live in the now, and that ...