"Do I still have my soul ...?"

Father Vincent Serpa assures a worried youth:

"It is impossible for us to own another's soul."


From the Catholic magazine This Rock. March / April -- 2011.


Question:


"In high school, some friends and I were goofing around, and I sold my soul to one of them for something simple.

"I wrote out and signed a piece of paper saying that my friend would take ownership of my soul.

"Do I still have my soul, or has ownership of it really been transferred to the guy I sold it to?"


Father Serpa's answer:


"The soul is the principle of life.

"You have it -- or you wouldn't be believe.

"It is impossible for us to own another's soul."

-- Fr. Vincent Serpa --