“Do not Fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in Hell.” Matthew 10:28

Do we believe in Hell?

Drawing on the book of Revelation, the traditional Christian understanding of hell has been of a place of eternal torment. In his novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce describes a Redemptorist preacher describing Hell to a congregation of schoolboys:

‘And this terrible fire will not afflict the bodies of the damned only