Yesterday Pope Francis preached one of the most extraordinary sermons ever delivered by a pope, one that demonstrates the laziness of those commentators who think he is a typical Latin American liberal. It put centre stage a teaching of the Church that Iâ??ve never heard discussed in a Catholic homily: the physical resurrection of all saved Christians at the Apocalypse.
The Pope told the early-morning congregation in his hostel that Catholics are afraid to contemplate the doctrine â?? of overwhelming importance to the early Christians â?? that their bodies (however physically destroyed on earth) will rise from the dead:
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