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Immortality

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The quality of the spiritual human soul whereby it survives the death of the body and remains in existence without end, to be reunited with the body at the final resurrection

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Catechism Passages

Passages ranked by relevance to Immortality, from most closely related outward.

§366 CHAPTER ONE I BELIEVE IN GOD THE FATHER

The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not "produced" by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection. 235

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