The Old Testament also has a few ghost stories. If they didn’t, why prohibit attempted contacts? These legal prohibitions demonstrate that at least some people believed in ghosts. And the book of Leviticus warn against using “mediums” to contact the souls of the dead (see Lv 19:31 20:6, 27). The book of Deuteronomy condemns anyone “who consults ghosts and spirits or seeks oracles from the dead” (see Dt 18:10–11). But here we must proceed with great caution. Only those few souls whose presence is seen or felt by others are truly ghosts. Strictly speaking, these disembodied souls are not ghosts because they have never become discernible to any living people. In theory, billions of ghosts potentially exist because billions of human beings have “lost” their bodies through death. In English, “ghost” specifically means the soul of a dead person that becomes discernible through our eyes, ears, nose (some ghosts smell!) or skin. This English word “ghost” comes from the German word geist, which broadly means “spirit,” including non-personal things such as the “spirit of the age” and so on.
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We have to clarify the term “ghost.” I am not speaking about menacing spirits that terrorize movie characters.
To put your question differently: can bodiless souls - ghosts - appear and intervene in our lives? It actually leads us to consider anew two key Christian beliefs: first, that every human person is a communion of body (matter) and soul (spirit) and second, that human life continues forever after bodily death, first as a bodiless soul, and eventually as a resurrected human being with body and soul reunited. So a question about ghosts is neither silly nor childish. Let’s start off by recalling that the tradition of scary costumes comes from the fact that Halloween is short for All Hallows Eve, the night before All Saints Day, when the Church pays homage to the souls of the dead who are in heaven with God.
As Halloween approaches, we may wonder if ghosts are real and if Catholics ought to believe that they exist.
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