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To: stanne

human beings deciding if others were “saints” is not Christian


38 posted on 09/04/2014 6:12:59 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

OY!

Look it up. Find out what you are talking about.

If humans decided who were saints, they’d run it like a political machine.

The Holy See answers an inquiry. they investigate. They then exhume the body to see if it has been incorrupt, and they ask for evidence of miracles, not hearsay, or opinions, of which there are plenty, but evidence. Docotors’ verifications of untreatable illnesses being cured without natural reason, for instance.

Then they run a devil’s advocate - it’s where the term comes from.

All to determine whether or not God made this person a saint, taken immediately into Heaven.

That’s it.


41 posted on 09/04/2014 6:18:43 PM PDT by stanne
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