[Gamecock]

Biblical Sainthood=repent and believe
Roman Catholic “sainthood”=work hard to live an especially outwardly pious life and if enough people take notice maybe, just maybe, you will be nominated for the title “saint.”

[terycarl]

Biblical Sainthood=repent and believe Roman Catholic “sainthood”=work hard to live an especially outwardly pious life and if enough people take notice maybe, just maybe, you will be nominated for the title “saint.”

Not at all...everyone in Heaven is a saint...the Catholic church merely points out that there are certain persons that can be shown to actuaally be there...Your mother, if deceased and in Heaven is a saint....but we have no way of knowing for certain that she is there....could still be in purgatory for all we know.