Why is it, asks Bishop Fulton Sheen, that one hears so often the expression ``Go to hell `` and almost never the expression ``Go to Heaven `` Here, at his most penetrating, challenging, and illuminating best is Bishop Sheen with his answer, in a book that breathes new meaning into the truths about Heaven and hell, and new life into the concepts of faith, tolerance, love, prayer, suffering, and death.
In Go to Heaven, a great spiritual teacher and writer, deeply aware of the human and spiritual conflicts being waged in the world, shows us the way to Heaven in a most eloquent book, encouraging the reader to choose Heaven now, and to understand the ``reality of hell.``.
Keenly aware of evil in the myriad forms it takes in today\'s world, Bishop Sheen writes about the constant battle man faces with the ``seven pallbearers of character`` - pride, avarice, envy, lust, anger, gluttony and sloth - linking them with the corrosive forces that never cease in their attacks on the Church and those who earnestly desire to be serious Christians.
Beginning with ``The First Faint Summons to Heaven,`` Sheen shows how unpopular it is today to be a true Christian, and describes the struggle for living our faith amid the disorders of our times.
Why is it, asks Bishop Fulton Sheen, that one hears so often the expression ``Go to hell `` and almost never the expression ``Go to Heaven `` Here, at his most penetrating, challenging, and illuminating best is Bishop Sheen with his answer, in a book that breathes new meaning into the truths about Heaven and hell, and new life into the concepts of faith, tolerance, love, prayer, suffering, and death