In Garth Stein's novel The Art of Racing in the Rain, the narrator tells us that in Mongolia, dogs are buried high in the hills so no one walks on the graves. The master whispers into his dog's ear ...

We are a nation of animal lovers. Turnstiles tell us that animal-watching at our zoos attracts more people than any other spectator sport. Each of us has a favorite animal. Harry Truman, who lived on ...

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 ...

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On this particular Reader Request Thursday, we’re going to get all theological, a subject that is like a big, fat softball for us to hammer down the first baseline to deep right field where it rattles ...

If the pope is right, these dogs might already be there. — -- Maybe it's true: All dogs really do go to heaven. At least that's what Pope Francis recently suggested when he consoled a young boy ...