Do Animals Have Souls Catholic. And keeping in mind that animals may not have immortal souls and thus this life might be all they have, would actually, i feel, inspire us to be nicer to animals and make this life as nice as we can for them and not do things like euthanize them when they become inconvenient etc. Pope francis sent ripples around the world wednesday when he suggested that pets and other animals have a place in heaven, which is in stark contradiction to conservative catholic teaching that animals don't have souls.
And keeping in mind that animals may not have immortal souls and thus this life might be all they have, would actually, i feel, inspire us to be nicer to animals and make this life as nice as we can for them and not do things like euthanize them when they become inconvenient etc. So while humans have immortal and rational souls. The bible does not give any explicit teaching on whether pets/animals have “souls” or whether pets/animals will be in heaven.
Pope francis sent ripples around the world wednesday when he suggested that pets and other animals have a place in heaven, which is in stark contradiction to conservative catholic teaching that animals don't have souls.
The souls that animals have are entirely dependent on their material makeup. It was based on the reasoning of st. Father spitzer responded the only humans had souls and animals did not. The conclusion is that animals have souls.