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Dear Abby: “Missing My Cat in Georgia” (June 20) was told by his Catholic friend that his cat wouldn’t be joining him in the afterlife. I have been an ordained pastor for 27 years. Last summer my cat, ...

(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 ...

(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 ...

Franciscan friars of St. Boniface Church in the Tenderloin reverently offered their annual Blessing of the Animals ceremony on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 4, to dozens of dogs, cats, hamsters, turtles, ...

This column is included in Terry Pluto’s new book, “The Guy With the Sign and Other Thoughts on Faith in Everyday Life” ($16.95 paperback, Gray & Co.) Available at Northeast Ohio bookstores and Amazon ...

Cambridge, MA. The Pope’s comment to a boy whose dog had died, that “Paradise is open to all of God’s creatures,” made the news everywhere today (December 12), including a front page article in the ...

VATICAN CITY, Dec. 15 (UPI) --Mistaken reports saying Pope Francis told a boy he would see his late dog again in heaven apparently stemmed from an Italian outlet referencing a past pope. Media outlets ...

A headline in the New York Daily News last year proclaimed, “All Dogs, and Cats, and Pigs, and Goats, and Cockroaches Go to Heaven: So Says Pope Francis.” The article was written by Bruce Friedrich, ...