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The Catholic Church teaches that after general judgment, the risen bodies go back to heaven or hell, and the world ends. The material universe ceases to exist, and reality consists only of heaven and hell — nothing else. Theologians and scientists are in agreement that the universe will end someday. When the world ends is irrelevant because your eternal destiny of heaven or hell is already decided well before that happens. Better to be worried and prepared for your particular judgment (see the earlier section “Facing the four last things”) because you don’t know the day or hour for that one, either. The Catechism also talks about the creation of a new heaven and new earth for the glorified, resurrected bodies, since the old earth will be destroyed at the end of the world. But no one knows what that’ll be like except God alone.

You don’t have to be worried about hell or the end of the world if you live a moral life by obeying the Ten Commandments (see Chapter 12), seeking God’s forgiveness for your sins, and trying to live a saintly life. Thanks to Jesus, Original Sin doesn’t prevent us from getting to heaven. Read more about Jesus’s sacrifice in Chapter 4.