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I cattolici credono nei fantasmi?



  • The Catholic Church has no official teaching on ghosts, and it does not rule them out.
  • It teaches that each soul is judged at death and goes to heaven, purgatory or hell (Catechism 1022, 1030).
  • Augustine and Thomas Aquinas held that God can, as an exception, let the souls of the dead appear to the living.
  • At Endor the dead prophet Samuel speaks to Saul (1 Samuel 28), and Sirach 46:20 says Samuel really prophesied after his death.
  • The Church forbids conjuring up the dead and going to mediums (Deuteronomy 18:10–12; Catechism 2116).
  • What it asks of us instead is prayer for the dead, above all by offering Mass for them (Catechism 958, 1032).

Yes, within limits. The Catholic Church has no official teaching on ghosts. It teaches that every soul is judged at death and goes to heaven, purgatory or hell, and its theologians have held that God can allow a soul to appear to the living. What the Church forbids is trying to contact the dead. Augustine answered the question with his own mother. If the dead took part in the lives of the living, he wrote, she would have come to…

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