What does the catholic church teach about death?

Question

do they belive people can commuinicate with the dead?

the reason im asking this is because on discover i watched this show call "a haunting" and it showed a catholic preist calling on a phycic and he can hear the dead. I personaly belive that he isnt really a catholic if he works with a phycic, i think that god does not allow the dead to communicate with us because they are "sleeping" so says jesus. I think that show teaches alot of bad things that arnt even true.

Answer 1

saints are not dead
" the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him"

Answer 2

Either the clergyman in the documentary was not a Catholic, or he was - thus making the entire premise of the documentary bogus. The documentary has a clergyman engaging in divination - a direct violation of the First Commandment.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches:

2116 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.

2117 All practices of magic or sorcery, by which one attempts to tame occult powers, so as to place them at one's service and have a supernatural power over others - even if this were for the sake of restoring their health - are gravely contrary to the virtue of religion. These practices are even more to be condemned when accompanied by the intention of harming someone, or when they have recourse to the intervention of demons. Wearing charms is also reprehensible. Spiritism often implies divination or magical practices; the Church for her part warns the faithful against it. Recourse to so-called traditional cures does not justify either the invocation of evil powers or the exploitation of another's credulity.

Answer 3

Catholics believe that a person's spiritual journey ends at death.

Catholic Church teaches:

All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to "unveil" the future.

Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers.

They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

No we do not think people communicate with the dead at least it is a very sinful thing to try to do but, our brothers and sisters that have gone on before us are not dead but alive in Christ. If they are alive we can certainly communicate with them by prayers asking for intercession. Scripture says our angels see Gods face all the time and now we have other people in Heaven to intercede for us too.

Answer 5

We believe in the communion of saints, and that we are still all God's friends. People still request the intercession of those who have gone before us and are before God's throne.

Answer 6

no, the bible forbids communication with the dead> when we die we face judgement,