[wideawake]

Thanks for the Christiane Amanpour treatment, SSPX.

Mr. K, think before you make ignorant, slanderous comments.

Catholics, like other Christians, routinely ask other Christians to pray on their behalf or "intercede" for them.

The difference is that Catholics recognize those faithful Christians whose bodies have died are not really dead - they are alive with Christ.

Therefore, we ask all our fellow Christians, not just those who are currently breathing, to pray for us, because we know that earthly death is meaningless in the light of Christ's glory.

So we ask Mary, Christ's mother and our fellow Christian to pray to her Son for us.

that's not "worship" unless you think I am worshipping you if I ask you to pray for me.

[Mr. K]

hey ignorant - I only asked a question

[clearsight]

So we ask Mary, Christ's mother and our fellow Christian to pray to her Son for us.

Why would you do this (ask a dead christian who is in heaven)if you are indwelt by the Powerful Holy Ghost who is God and you are washed by the blood of Jesus which makes you authorized (worthy) to enter boldly into the thrown room of God the Father Himself and you make intercession for the people around and in your life. We as christians are already seated with God the Father in the Heavenlies. God is not a respecter of persons (Christians) dead or alive, so were does this hierarchy of some ones prayers being of more influence than others come from ????