Would you like to hear a ghost story?

["The Story of Ghosts"]

Hi, my name's Father Mike Smiths, and this is Essentially Presents.

Why would we be so open to the idea of ghosts?

I'm talking about ghosts, they're new as Catholics.

We need to have three caveats.

Number one, are there any Catholic doctrines that establish the existence and the communication

of ghosts?

No explicit Catholic doctrines.

In fact, there are some big deal saints who shut down the idea that you could communicate

with ghosts.

But other big deal saints who said, yeah, that's a real thing, it's possible.

Number two, second caveat, in communication with ghosts.

No, we're absolutely prohibited in Scripture and in the Bible to have any kind of communication

with ghosts.

That's what they call the sin of necromancy, and it's really, really, clearly forbidden.

What about praying to the saints?

Great question, another video of some other time.

Okay, the caveat number three is this, there's a huge difference, and we need to establish

this difference between the ghostly and the demonic because there exists a demonic reality

that God made good angels that have rebelled against them, they've fallen.

And those demons, those angel, fallen angels, they're not interested in our good.

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