To: NKP_Vet
If she wasn’t a saint the moment she died, there is absolutely no way she can become one now. Let’s hope she was.
3 posted on
07/04/2014 7:20:11 AM PDT by
aMorePerfectUnion
( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
If she wasnt a saint the moment she died, there is absolutely no way she can become one now. Though she likely died as a saint we don't get Western Union telegraphs informing us of this. We have to do what we can to confirm it.
To: aMorePerfectUnion; NKP_Vet
"If she wasnt a saint the moment she died, there is absolutely no way she can become one now. Lets hope she was." Assuming that by "saint" you mean "saved," I don't think there's one person in this whole glorious Free Republic that would disagree with this per se...
...but in case there's somebody lurking out there who thinks canonization "makes" a person a saint, I have this to say:
- the Catholic Church doesn't teach that
- the Catholic Church has never taught that
- "sainthood" in the canonization sense, means a man or woman "officially recognized" as a person who led a life of heroic virtue, worthy of imitation
- the number of saints in heaven exceeds, probably by many orders of magnitude, the number of canonized saints, and
- that includes a whole lot more people than just pew-sitting, dues-paying Catholics. It includes all those whom God wishes to save: He alone looks into the heart of a person, and He alone is judge.
9 posted on
07/04/2014 8:43:38 AM PDT by
Mrs. Don-o
("All the way to heaven is heaven, because Christ said, 'I am the Way.'" - St. Catherine of Siena)
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