[kjam22]

Only God is holy.... and he doesn't typically fire or excommunicate anyone. Men fire and excommunicate according to scripture.

[Doc Anonymous]

Anti-Catholicism is no excuse for ignorance of scripture:

Bible, Revised Standard Version

6 matches.

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1Cor.7

1. [34] and his interests are divided. And the unmarried woman or girl is anxious about the affairs of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how to please her husband.

Eph.1

1. [4] even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.

Eph.5

1. [27] that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

1Pet.1

1. [15] but as he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in all your conduct;
2. [16] since it is written, "You shall be holy, for I am holy."

Rev.22

1. [11] Let the evildoer still do evil, and the filthy still be filthy, and the righteous still do right, and the holy still be holy."

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[wideawake]

In the literal sense you are quite correct. As we are told every Sunday at Mass: "You alone are the Holy One, You alone are the Lord, You alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ . . . all life, all holiness comes from You".

Of course, Scripture refers to many believers as "saints" (in the Greek hagioi or "holy ones"). It is in this latter, derived sense that the Pope is called holy.

St. Paul was not ascribing the transcendent holiness of God Himself to the "saints in Jerusalem". Nor am I to the Pope.