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What Happens When We Die Essay

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Conflict. Perhaps more than at any time in our history, our world is suffering. Look around you. Wars, poverty, greed and paranoia. Destruction, terrorism, loss of human life, loss of dignity. So much suffering and injustice. Sadly, religion and religious differences are often blamed as the cause. But are they? [Intro Clip] I am here today to show you that religious beliefs do not divide our society or cause the conflict or suffering in our world today. Rather, it comes from mankind’s ignorance in understanding others’ beliefs and respecting their humanity. Come join me on the journey to investigate just how different some of these religious beliefs are when it comes to answering one of life’s biggest questions: “What happens when we die?” Let’s take a closer look… [CATHOLICISM] …show more content…

What do Catholics believe happens when we die? Well in short Catholics do in fact believe in an afterlife. Heaven and Hell. One said to be the barer of all things good and one said to be the source of all evil. No one knows what heaven and hell are like. In the bible, heaven is talked about often however it is rarely described. Catholics believe that heaven and hell are a physical place that we go to after we die. “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” This is said in Luke 23:43. Jesus refers to heaven being a place of Paradise and he refers to hell being “…a blazing furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 13:50). Although physical human bodies die, human souls never die. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that every spiritual soul "is immortal: It does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection". (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part One: The Profession of Faith, Section 2: The Profession of the Christian Faith, Chapter One: I Believe in God The Father, Article I, Para 6. Man at

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