To: Land of the Irish; Tantumergo; Kolokotronis
the Catholic Church cannot properly worship each one of these Saints by offering them a formal homage as she does with the canonized Saints The professor just made a HUGE boo-boo with this statement! This the kind of ignorant nonsense that gives everyone ammunition to spread lies about the Catholic Church.
7 posted on
11/01/2004 12:14:11 AM PST by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: kosta50
The professor just made a HUGE boo-boo with this statement!
There was a 19th century Catholic writer from the U.S. named Orestes Brownson. He was a convert to Catholicism, and he wrote a book called "Saint Worship," which was an apologetic piece in favor of the veneration of the saints.
To read a good explanation of the origin of the word "worship" in this context, go to Saint Worship?
13 posted on
11/01/2004 10:30:41 AM PST by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: kosta50
The professor just made a HUGE boo-boo with this statement! See post #5 for explanation.
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