A new book helps to answer: Do animals go to heaven?

The Rev. Terry Martin had served large, busy Catholic parishes in the United Kingdom for 25 years before sensing that he had reached burnout. “I was frankly running on empty,” he said when he and I talked recently. Granted a year’s sabbatical from his diocesan bishop, Martin lived for 12 months on the edge of the Sussex Downs, southeastern England’s grasslands set on rolling chalk hills.