We are not scandalized by this because no one thinks we worship them as a god. We venerate the Saints in heaven because of the excellence they attained in living a life in imitation of Christ.
Believers on earth and in heaven constitute a living community which the major Christian denominations recognize as the Communion of Saints. The saints in heaven are not dead. Their Christian example ...
A. The saints and we are members of the same Church, because the Church in heaven and the Church on earth are one and the same Church, and all its members are in communion with one another.
Like the usual canonization process, equipollent canonization is an invocation of papal infallibility in which the pope declares that a person is among the saints in heaven. It avoids the formal ...
The Southern Saints are St Kilda's VFL Women's team, and the Peta Searle-coached side produced six AFLW draftees in a promising sign for the club's player development ahead of its likely 2020 AFLW ...