Pope denies bodily resurrection of Christ

Pope denies bodily resurrection of Christ
Pope Francis already has been accused of heresy by prominent Catholic clergy, but now his longtime friend and interviewer is claiming the South American-born pontiff denies one of the foundational doctrines of the Christian faith, that Jesus Christ rose from the dead in bodily form. Scalfari claims that the pope told him that Jesus Christ did not rise bodily from the dead but “in the semblance of a spirit.” The Vatican’s response was similar when Scalfari reported Francis told him in 2018 there is no hell and, recently, when the journalist claimed the pope told him that once Jesus Christ became incarnate, he was a man, a “man of exceptional virtues” but “not at all a God.” CNS News Managing Editor Matthew W. Chapman pointed out the response does not state that what Scalfari wrote was false and there is “no clear denial, no demand that Scalfari correct his article or retract it, and no denial by the Pope himself