Discerning Hearts.com presents Inside the Pages, insights from today's most compelling authors.

I'm your host, Chris McGregor, and I'm delighted to be joined by Father Thomas Morrow, who has an

STL in moral theology from the Dominican House of Studies and received his doctorate in sacred theology

from the pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family.

Father Morrow has appeared as a guest on numerous Catholic media platforms and is the author of

overcoming sinful anger, how to master your emotions and bring peace to your life and overcoming sinful thoughts,

how to realign your thinking and defeat

harmful ideas. With Father Thomas Murrow, we go inside the pages of Straight to Heaven,

a practical guide for Growing in Holiness, published by Sophia Institute Press.

Father Morrow, thank you so much for joining me. My pleasure. My pleasure. It was such a delight

to get a copy of the book. I just love your writing. You have been on the forefront of evangelization

and teaching the Catholic faith for so long. This is such a great book, and we needed today,

Straight to Heaven, a practical guide for growing in

holiness. Thank you so much. You're most welcome. It's so important, don't you think,

that not only to grow in holiness, but to know why we're growing in holiness, where we're going,

what's the goal? And you set that out right in the very beginning, don't you?

This is how I motivated kids in school when I taught in this school, is to teach him about

heaven, hell, and purgatory. And once I taught them about that, they listened to the whole year.

For many people in today's culture anyway, we all believe in heaven, that there's going to be a heaven. We're not so

sure about hell. And for many of us, we have no idea what purgatory is. That's right.

When you talk about heaven, which I kind of like, you start right off the bat about what it's going

to be like, what are some of those basics that you would want to communicate to

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