What Really Happens After We Die: (There Will Be Hugs in Heaven)

Here professor of Church history Dr. James Papandrea gathers in one place all that is known about the afterlife — drawn from the teachings of Jesus, the Apostles, the Church Fathers, and the Church's Magisterium — affording, for the first time ever, a complete, authoritative, detailed portrait of the state of souls after death and the realms we enter. The following are among the many questions he answers:

• If, as St. Paul says, “flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God,” how can our...