Of course Catholics believe in hell. Our Blessed **** spoke about hell more than He did anything else, other than His own divinity. The Hebrew word used in the New Testament is Gehenna, referring to the unquenchable and perpetual fire, a pit, a place of unspeakable misery - the place to which the damned are condemned for all eternity. Hell is mentioned and warned about nearly twenty times in the New Testament, and Our Blessed **** has repeatedly warned us about it since that time. Our Blessed Lady showed the children at Fatima a vision of hell, and urged them to pray for the salvation of poor sinners, many of whom go to hell. Our Lady indicated that people were falling into hell daily "like so many black snow flakes" in a veritable blizzard that we cannot see in this life.