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Article: Immortality of the soul Part I. (Apologetics).
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- Catholic Insight
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- May 1, 2003
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One of the most important teachings of the Catholic faith is that the human soul is immortal. It seems that all societies until the twentieth century have thought that there is a next life. At times there have been individuals or groups within these societies which denied this, but perhaps the first preponderantly this-worldly society was the Soviet one, in which the number of nonbelievers was much great than the number of believers.
Though belief in some kind of immortality has been so universal, some of the opinions about the nature of this life were strange. One chief reason for this is that, when the soul, the spirit, leaves the body, it is hard to believe ...