Kresta in the Afternoon – February 6, 2024 – Hour 2

Author: Bryant Schoenle Published on: February 6, 2024 Published in: Al Kresta

Dr. Elizabeth Spalding discusses the legacy of Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago and we look at the Church’s teaching on Hell with Dr. Daniel Lendman.

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The Gulag Archipelago: 50 Years Later

It’s been 50 years since the English translation of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago,” in which he recounted his years of imprisonment in Soviet labor camps for criticizing Stalin. Dr. Elizabeth Spalding of the Victims of Communism museum joins us with more on his life and how you can join an event commemorating the work.

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Live not by Lies

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Victims of Communism

Dr. Elizabeth Spalding is Chairman of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and Founding Director of the Victims of Communism Museum. She is Senior Fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and Visiting Fellow at the Van Andel Graduate School of Government at Hillsdale College. She’s the author of The First Cold Warrior: Harry Truman, Containment, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism and the co-author of A Brief History of the Cold War. Learn more at victimsofcommunism.org

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Dare we hope for an “Empty Hell?” – A history of the debate

In an interview with an Italian television program a few weeks ago, Pope Francis was asked how he “imagines hell” and said he “likes to think of hell as empty” and hopes that it is. He made it clear that this was a personal view and not a dogmatic one, and the question of Hell has been debated by theologians for years. We look at the debate with Dr. Daniel Lendman.

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What Is the Occupancy of Hell?

Avery Cardinal Dulles: The Population of Hell

Pope Francis: ‘I like to think of hell as empty’

Being Precise About Catholic Church Teaching on Hell