Catholic Beliefs vs. Individual Beliefs Religion and beliefs vary from person to person. What humans come to believe is a direct result of each individual's background, family, friends, society, and materialistic things surrounding them. This holds true for the subject of death and resurrection. Not only are ideas about Jesus' death and resurrection confusing, but also many people do not contemplate what happens to them after they die. Although Catholic faith has a general teaching …showed first 75 words of 1197 total…

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