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To: Mad Dawg
[ Just to be clear, the Catholic Church doesn't think that a "declaration by some human" makes people into saints. ]

SO THEN.... Mother Teresa is a saint and so is John Kerry/Teddy Kennedy since they are a Roman Catholics in good standing?..

6,275 posted on 01/16/2007 12:04:55 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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To: hosepipe
[ Just to be clear, the Catholic Church doesn't think that a "declaration by some human" makes people into saints. ]

SO THEN.... Mother Teresa is a saint and so is John Kerry/Teddy Kennedy since they are a Roman Catholics in good standing?..

How would THAT follow?

In any event, Teddy the Hutt isn't done yet. There's time for him. Ditto for Jean Francois Kerry.

And in general, I think we view the Church at least as much as a hosptial for sinners as a society of the elect. "Wheat and tares" figure into our thinking.

The declaration doesn't "make" somebody a saint, it acknowledges their sanctity. Further one reason for "All Saints Day" is the teaching that there are scads of saints who have not been "canonized".

6,286 posted on 01/16/2007 12:34:39 PM PST by Mad Dawg ('Shut up,' he explained.)
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