What the Catholic Church is doing is like advertising far and wide that only certain great and holy Christians whom they recognize officially are saints, but then in the many pages of fine print they say that all Christians are saints. It would be interesting to include a question on sainthood in a poll of Americans and in other counties on people’s knowledge of Christianity. Why does the Catholic Church use its power and position this way?
And things have been said that the Catholic Church doesn’t claim to “make” saints, but that is obviously not the issue. Of course they will credit God for that. But Catholics themselves speak very sloppily and are double-tongued about it, and haveno interest in correcting the media. A woman on Catholic radio just talked about there being “new saints.” If they were saints that the church just reconized, then they’re not “ new saints.” (Cont’d)
Then, the Biblical definition that’s in the fine print in the Catholic Church rarely if ever is the meaning that the Church means and uses. They’ll mention it now and then (as I just heard them do on Catholic radio), but by “the saints” they mean those whom they’ve officially recognized. I just heard on Catholic radio them talking to a man who worked for a Pope, and they talked about what it was like not only to work for a Pope, but a saint. So, if all Christians are saints, which is what they’ll also say, why is this their primary understandinflg of the Word, rather than how God Himself has defined the Word?
I would even reject the term “little s Christian” myself. Rather, I would rather just be called a saint-in-the-making. The term SAINT should only go to those who are home with God.