What do Catholics believe about the dead?

Answer 1

some roman catholics believe in hell and others dont,

those who believe think that if a person has committed a mortal sin which has not been forgiven, or if they have been rejected God, then they are taken immediately to Hell where they will be tortured forever without any hope of relief or mercy

Answer 2

The Catholic belief in hell is that, in one way it is very individual, and in the important way, it is exactly the same. Bottom line? Hell is self-constructed by each individual human being who chooses themselves in ANY way over God, thus rejecting God and constructing their own personal hell, in which they will live for all eternity in the eternal torment of being forever separated from their ultimate happiness for which they were created: God.

Answer 3

Yes, Catholics do believe that Jesus went to hell to save them all from their sins. Not just Catholics believe this, many other forms of Christianity teach the same thing.

Jesus did not descend into the actual Hell but into the 'limbo' where those who had died in a state of grace were waiting for him to die for their sins so that they could be admitted into Heaven.

Answer 4

Of course Catholics believe in hell. Our Blessed Lord 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 Lord 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.

Answer 5

Catholics believe that the soul is immortal and that it was created by God at the same time as the body. The soul, however, does not die with the body but leaves this plane of existence upon death and faces the particular judgment. At the particular judgment the soul's final choice from his life on earth, whether to love God and others or to selfishly believe only in himself is made. God them grants the soul it's wish by allowing it to go to hell if it has chosen its self (hell is the absence of God's love and the inability to see God). If the soul is not yet perfect but is saved, then it goes to purgatory to be purified of the dross left from its earthly life so that it made join God in Heaven. A perfect soul would go straight to God following the particular judgment. At the end of time (the end of this world of change) there is the general judgment and everyone gets their bodies back, resurrected as Our Blessed Lord's was. The saved in heaven get a glorified body which can not suffer while the damned in hell get their old, tortured body back with all its aches and woes.

Answer 6

Roman Catholic AnswerHell is eternal separation from God who is our last end. It is eternal frustration, eternal unhappiness, eternal pain. Most people can barely survive an hour, much less a whole night of pain, like a toothache, or a major headache, or some such. This is eternity - no time, endless, with no hope of ever ending. Hell is eternal despair, and utter disaster.

Answer 7

Catholic AnswerIt's just Catholic, not Roman Catholic. Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the official Catholic Church. The Catholic view of hell is from Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ:

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994

The state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed, reserved for those who refuse by their own free choice to believe and be converted from sin, even to the end of their lives (1033).

from Modern Catholic Dictionary by John A. Hardon, S.J. Doubleday & Co., Inc. Garden City, NY 1980Hell is a place and state of eternal punishment that was prepared for the fallen angels and human beings who die deliberately estranged from the love of God. It consists of a twofold punishment: that of the pain of loss which consists of the deprivation of the love of God, and the pain of sense, which consists in the suffering caused by outside material things. The punishment of hell is eternal. The protestant viewpoint, which runs contrary to the Gospel: Jesus indeed suffered and died to save us from hell, but we have to cooperate with that grace throughout our life, is reflected in th answer in discussion. If we commit even one mortal sin and fall from grace we are eternally damned from that moment on until we repent and avail ourselves of the sacrament of reconciliation - the only normal means that Jesus gave us to have our sins forgiven. Hell is definitely something to worry about, as Jesus, The Bible, and all the saints tell us. To quote from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 19941033 ... To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him for ever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called "hell".

Answer 8

the catholics believe that Jesus went to hell to save all of him friends and take them back to heaven and not jut catholics believe that, bunch of other people do to.