I think various ones of the finger frothing cliques consider themselves to be
the omnniscient Pope’s on that score . . . at least in their own mirrors.
Examples:
...the dead are not dead.
...situations that arise between the living does not
exclude the dead.
...the dead are with us.
...the dead are better suited to pray.
...the church needs to see devotion to the dead.
...if you petition the dead you've found a friend.
and this list could go on. So it had to have begun somewhere when it infiltrated the church. Do you know of a source of reference outside the scripture?.. because scripture is clear about not doing this, so of course it came from some other source. What is the model or place that this began? I'd appreciate a book or something that would perhaps point to who and where and when this began.
Thanks.