The Magisterium of the Church has never commented on
a thousand year reign of Christ. Rather, as is
already clear
from what is covered in these notes, the Church does
not
see the Second Coming of Christ at any other time
than at
the general judgment of all men and women which is
the same
as the resurrection of the dead followed by
definitive reward
or punishment for souls.
The Church interprets the expression "a thousand years" not
literally but according to the literature in which
it appears-
-prophetic
and apocalyptic. In apocalyptic
literature, a thousand
years would simply indicate a long period of time,
in this case,
the time period before the Second Coming of Christ.
Apocalyptic literature is not to be taken literally.