[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

Randall stated that the woman he spoke to had prayed to the pope - that’s it. No implication that the RCC teaches people to do.

As I said about praying to dead people - I defined them as having died the first death. They would still be on planet earth if their body hadn’t died. All the saints in heaven have died the first death, save Enoch (Gen 5:24) and Elijah (2 Kings 2:11).

[conservonator]

So their dead, but not totally dead? Are our prayers for intercession aimed at their rotting flesh or their heavenly presence? I ask the living saints in heaven to bring my prayers before the Lord, never talked to a body of rotting flesh in such a manner

[Campion]

Randall stated that the woman he spoke to had prayed to the pope - that’s it.

If that were truly "it", he wouldn't have bothered to mention it at all.

[Campion]

As I said about praying to dead people

Christ has destroyed death (2 Tm 1:10). Scripture calls the saints in heaven "the souls of just men made perfect" (Heb 12:23), not "dead people".