As David Gibson has pointed out, it was Pope Paul VI, not Pope Francis, who said, “One day we will see our pets in the eternity of Christ.” The statement was not an exercise in the official ...

Editor’s note: News organizations around the world pounced on comments, originally misreported by Italian media, that Pope Francis said animals can go to heaven. It turns out he never said that, but a ...

Contradicting an old belief that dogs have no souls and therefore cannot go to heaven, Pope Francis says there’s room for dogs – and all creatures – in heaven. According tothe New York Times, the pope ...

There were two ways to go on the night before the vet went about his merciful-but-awful-and-oh-so-sad work on my family’s dog, my dog, Kiu, and I hated both of them. One was to cry and shy away from ...

Contradicting an old belief that dogs have no souls and therefore cannot go to heaven, Pope Francis says there’s room for dogs – and all creatures – in heaven. According tothe New York Times, the pope ...