How do you know those people are even in heaven, as apposed to the alternative. You are not supposed to be the judge of that, and not your church either, BTW. Only God is the judge of who gets to heaven. It is very presumptious of you to pray for those to help you ask God, when you don't even realy know where they are.
Becky
How do you know there's a God. I nor the Catholic Church has judged them but we do read the Bible and there are ways to know. It's all there in Scripture, one passage I already quoted and guess what this is the end of my argument.
If I thought that any of you guys were interested in the Truth of Catholicism, I'd spend day and night on this thread trying to teach you but you want to believe what you want to believe and your minds are not open at all.
I know, for a fact, that you just skim through the posts and get one little contention to jump on, you don't even really try to understand what is written if it isn't what you want to believe. I, on the other hand have been through all your Protestant stuff all my life. I've been saved, I've been throught the feel-goodism of Protestantism ,the "just me and Jesus" viewpoint, It's not that simple and it left much to be desired and sought after.
I refuse to abandon my years of prayer and study because you can't understand them but I do. The Holy Spirit has protected the Catholic Church from error for 2000 yrs now and the gates of hell are not about to prevail now.
Yes, you attack it but you will never be able to erase the Truths of Jesus' Church. You can have a pale imitation of Christianity but until you understand and embrace all of God's teaching within the context of the Universal Church, you will always be fighting against Truth.