Bodily resurrection is a final transformation, Pope says
September 19, 2014
Preaching on the Christian belief in the resurrection of the body, Pope Francis told a congregation at daily Mass on September 19 that for many people, resurrection is more difficult to accept than death.
The Pope remarked that some people say, in effect: “I want to go to heaven, I don’t want to go to hell,’ but we stop there.” This abstract belief in the afterlife, he said, can become a sort of “cosmic pantheism.” Yet, he continued, that approach is easier to grasp than the notion of resurrection of the body.
The resurrection of the body, the Holy Father continued, implies a transformation. “There is resistance to the transformation,” he said; “resistance to the work of the Spirit we received at Baptism, which is to transform us utterly.”
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