# Catholic Anthropology and Digital Continuity **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Catholic Theology / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Established Catholic doctrine + continuity analysis ## Definition **Catholic Anthropology and Digital Continuity** examines the tension between Catholic teaching on the human person as a profound unity of body and spiritual soul and transhumanist accounts locating personal continuity in transferable informational or functional state. ## Continuity Significance It is a precision case because Catholic doctrine affirms both an immortal soul that survives death and the ultimate resurrection of the whole embodied person. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence The Catechism teaches that the soul is the form of the body, survives separation at death, and will be reunited with the body. Vatican teaching in 2026 explicitly critiques radical transhumanist and posthumanist visions. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note It is incorrect to state that Catholicism teaches the soul cannot be separated from flesh; Catholic doctrine explicitly says death separates soul and body. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Soul-Body Unity|Soul-Body Unity]] · [[wiki/Resurrection of the Body|Resurrection of the Body]] · [[wiki/Theological Non-Equivalence of Uploading|Theological Non-Equivalence of Uploading]] · [[wiki/Eschatological Neutrality|Eschatological Neutrality]] · [[wiki/Religious Continuity Election|Religious Continuity Election]] ## Sources / Provenance - https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_one/article_1/paragraph_6_man.html - https://www.vatican.va/content/catechism/en/part_one/section_two/chapter_three/article_11/ii_dying_in_christ_jesus.html - https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html