The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539
Catechism number 996
From the beginning, Christian faith in the resurrection has met with incomprehension and opposition.548 "On no point does the Christian faith encounter more opposition than on the resurrection of the body."549 It is very commonly accepted that the life of the human person continues in a spiritual fashion after death. But how can we believe that this body, so clearly mortal, could rise to everlasting life?
How do the dead rise?