Pope Francis says Christians must dismiss the false notion that there is no resurrection of the dead.
During his Friday mass in Vatican City, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church said questions what happens after death can lead to people not understanding Christianity's "logic of the future," the Catholic News Service reports.
Believers will rise again in body and soul like Jesus Christ did following his Crucifixion, that logic follows.
"A spiritualistic piety, a nuanced piety is much easier; but to enter into the logic of the flesh of Christ, this is difficult. And this is the logic of the day after tomorrow. We will resurrect like the risen Christ, with our own flesh," the pontiff said.
"Tomorrow's logic is easy: We will all die. But the logic of the day after tomorrow, that is difficult … You also need the great grace of the Holy Spirit to understand this logic of the day after tomorrow; after the transformation, when he will come and will carry us transformed above the clouds to be with him always."
He made the remarks during a morning Mass in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.