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To: Steelfish
The Church doesn’t make saints. It confirms through proof of two miracles established by an international panel of experts and neutral scientists that a person who was praying to a particular individual was cured completely, of what the doctors called an incurable disease, and the cure must be complete and permanent. This is earthly confirmation that the person is in Heaven. It takes one miracle to achieve the status of “Blessed.” So far even Bishop Fulton J. Sheen has not attained the “Blessed” status. So good luck on Billy Graham.

No argument from me, re the Catholic understanding of what a saint is. If you don't mind, I'm going to expand on those steps you posted to put some order to them:


42 posted on 11/20/2014 2:53:17 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Alex Murphy

2000 year old tradition based on Petrine authority. Without authority all else is in essence whimsical. Just look around.


44 posted on 11/20/2014 5:58:11 PM PST by Steelfish
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