Dante in the Underworld by George Augustus Wallis. Public Domain, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
When I was 24, I was asked at the last minute to substitute teach a religious education class at another parish. I was not given a topic or syllabus, so I racked my brain for something compelling for this sixth-grade class. Then, eureka: I taught about Hell.
The students seemed like the typical religio...
The article highlights the author's experience teaching a religious education class on Hell to sixth-graders who were initially uninterested but became engaged with questions. The author uses this experience to introduce their new book, "100 Tough Questions for Catholics," which aims to provide answers to various questions on topics such as God, Creation, human beings, good and evil, faith and science, Jesus Christ, the Bible, Catholicism and other religions, sin, morality, sacraments, prayer, h...