“How do Mary and the saints listen to perhaps millions of prayers at the same time? Now that they are in heaven do they now have the attribute of omniscience? Because God has this attribute we know that he can hear and respond to millions of simultaneous prayers. But do Mary and the saints have this same ability?”
Many enthusiastic thanks for this observation. Why didn’t I think of that?
To God alone be ALL the glory! Man is less than nothing apart from His grace.
If you are smarter than I (which is probably not hard) that doesn't mean that you are a genius, much less that you are as smart as God. If you can run faster than I (again, not hard) that doesn't mean you are the fastest creature or that you can run as fast as light.
If Mary and the other saints (and the angels as well, possibly) can "process" more communications and in more languages (somehow I don't think language is an issue, but suppose it is) than you or I can, that does not require her to be omniscient (to have all the knowledge that is) or omnipotent (to have all the power that is).
This is just a negative argument, not any kind of proof or anything like that. There's an important distinction between being able to do a lot more and being able to do anything, and between very great and infinite, and so forth.
So as the native of one of the wettest places on earth (if we're talking about Binghamton NY) but still not infinitely wet, much less entirely submerged, says in #150 , I'm not pretending to provide "evidence", but simply to turn aside the proposition that we attribute to Mary et al. omniscience or any other omni.