According to Catholicism, when a person dies, is that person's spirit/soul limited as to where it can be present? According to Catholicism, when a person dies, is that person's spirit and/or soul limited as to where it can be present?
What St. Thomas Aquinas discusses in his question &quot;Whether an angel is in a place?&quot; (Summa Theologica I q. 52 a. 1) can also be applied to human souls, which are immaterial, like angels:

It is befitting an angel to be in a place; yet an angel and a body are said to be in a place in quite a different sense. A body is said to be in a place in such a way that it is applied to such place according to the contact of dimensive quantity; but there is no such quantity in the angels, for theirs is a virtual one. Consequently an angel is said to be in a corporeal place by application of the angelic power in any manner whatever to any place.
Accordingly there is no need for saying that an angel can be deemed commensurate with a place, or that he occupies a space in the continuous; for this is proper to a located body which is endowed with dimensive quantity. In similar fashion it is not necessary on this account for the angel to be contained by a place; because an incorporeal substance virtually contains the thing with which it comes into contact, and is not contained by it: for the soul is in the body as containing it, not as contained by it. In the same way an angel is said to be in a place which is corporeal, not as the thing contained, but as somehow containing it.