Do reincarnation beliefs go against catholicism?

help please
I believe in reincarnation but I want to know if its against my religion to beleive in that.
I am catholic and some people have told me it is against my religion and some say its not.
I believe in god and going to heven and hell but I think...

that reincarnation has a role in all of that.

give me a positive and nice answer please because I want help

if you believe in God, that's all that matters to him, if you also believe in reincarnation, good for you, it,s a good thing to have beliefs... God will not deny you heaven if you live your life as good as you can and believe and cherish him

Catholics believe that your final destination is either heaven or hell. Every soul is unique; you are born only once and only in one form. So yes, reincarnation is against Catholicism.

Actually Christians do believe in one reincarnation. They believe that after you die you are reincarnated in heaven.

Contrast this with the Hindu view of reincarnation. Hindus believe that whatever situation you are born into if you do well with your life that after you die your next life will be better, born to a richer and/or more spiritual family. If you really screw up you could move down and come back as a cow or a pig (which is one of the reasons why Hindus are vegetarian, they are afraid they might eat their ancestors). If you keep doing well and moving up the chain than eventually you are freed from the cycle of rebirth and achieve Godhead (the Hindu equivalent of Heaven).

Athiests (such as myself) might view reincarnation as a metaphore. Each of us is part of a chain of life that started long before us and will continue long after we are dead. Life springs from death.

I like filletofspam's answer. Oooh, Nirvana!

Anyway, I was born of a Jewish mother but raised Catholic, but I choose to be Pagan.

Don't ask.

Do Christians as a whole believe in reincarnation? Most don't. But Catholics? Well, what about the whole scenario where Jesus rises from the dead (Sweet Zombie Christ!) to go to Heaven? Would you call that reincarnation? Hmm..I dunno...I know a few Catholics that believe in reincarnation; I know lot of people of different creeds who believe in it. I think it just depends on the individual person.

Personally, I believe in it. According to a palm reading I had done, (I dunno if I buy into that though..) I've had four successful past lives...makes me wonder how many unsuccessful ones I've had! XD

The bible does not teach that when we die, we get to be something or somebody else. It teaches that we have a soul, and a spirit, and a body, once we die, we are in a holding place until the resurrection, then, if we died in Christ, we get our glorified bodies, similar to the body that Christ had after he died and came back on earth. Anything outside of these teachings do not come from the bible. Blessings...

The difference between the Christian (Catholic) resurrection and reincarnation is that the resurrected body is still the same person inside. The disciples may not have immediately recognized the risen Christ, but once they did recognize him they were unanimous in witnessing that it was _him_ and not somebody else. And he was still fully human, besides. Indeed, a glorified human, a human as we were meant to be.

This is different from reincarnation, as I understand it, in that the reincarnated soul is believed to come back as someone else, and (depending on the religion) as another species entirely, a newt perhaps, or a cow.

The difference between the Christian (Catholic) resurrection and reincarnation is that the resurrected body is still the same person inside. The disciples may not have immediately recognized the risen Christ, but once they did recognize him they were unanimous in witnessing that it was _him_ and not somebody else. And he was still fully human, besides. Indeed, a glorified human, a human as we were meant to be.

This is different from reincarnation, as I understand it, in that the reincarnated soul is believed to come back as someone else, and (depending on the religion) as another species entirely, a newt perhaps, or a cow.

No, as Christians, as Catholics, we believe we have one chance at life--but that God has come to us to teach us all we need to learn so that we can respond well to God's offer of salvation. Reincarnation is not a part of our faith.