
Speaking with the Dead? (Visions, Apparitions, Saints, Spirits, Ghosts, Prayer, Intercession, Mediums, Seances, Necromancy)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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The Morality of Intercession
In this life, there's nothing wrong in principle with calling out to another person and asking to speak with them. So why would it suddenly become immoral to do if the person were dead? And we already have evidence that initiating contact can be moral. In Saint Thomas Aquinas's quad liberal questions, he considers an issue very similar to this. He considered whether it was moral to ask a dying person to reveal their fate after death.
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Can we speak with the dead? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli look at the question of speaking with departed human souls; whether it is permitted by Church teaching; and what cautions we must consider; and they ask if Fr. Nathan Castle's unique ministry to "stuck souls" is permissible.
