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by maleldil 38 days ago
Only humans have immortal souls. From the Catechism (1703):

> Endowed with "a spiritual and immortal" soul, The human person is "the only creature on earth that God has willed for its own sake."

https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_three/secti...

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Yes, and this immortality is attributed to the immateriality of the intellectual faculties. According to this view, you can think of human death as more of an amputation of the body from the totality of the spiritual-bodily composite. Bodily resurrection is thus a restoration of the body.