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Mary was alive in your example. The dead don’t intercede.

Minor little thing - um, by Catholic Tradition (this has been taught for 19 and a half centuries), Mary didn't die. She was "assumed" into Heaven. When it was her time, she went straight there, body and soul.

75 posted on 09/07/2008 12:22:54 PM PDT by Desdemona (On top of everything else, the Palin pick coaxed this FReeper out of posting and pinging retirement.)

“Minor little thing - um, by Catholic Tradition (this has been taught for 19 and a half centuries), Mary didn't die. She was "assumed" into Heaven. When it was her time, she went straight there, body and soul.”

Oh really?

I read the bible daily and I don't recall ever reading anything that even suggests that.

Is it in the bible?

Or is it just one of those traditional truths that has been passed down from one Pope to the next?

This Tradition, is it based on the premise that the bible is only true because the Church Fathers have found it to be consistent with the Official Church doctrine?

155 posted on 09/07/2008 7:48:00 PM PDT by Fichori (ironic: adj. 1 Characterized by or constituting irony. 2 Obamy getting beat up by a girl.)