To: Aquinasfan
For this reason the Catholic Church reserves exorcism to the clergy. And have shrunk the word 'saint' to be applied to only a VERY small subset of believers, unlike the biblical description.
175 posted on
12/08/2004 12:35:55 PM PST by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Elsie
And have shrunk the word 'saint' to be applied to only a VERY small subset of believers, The saints formally canonized by the Church represent those people that we know with certainty are now in heaven. The Church does not teach that these are the only people in heaven.
208 posted on
12/08/2004 3:38:37 PM PST by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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