NP not my anti-Catholicism

[Paul Mackin]

Terrance wrote:

> BTW, why do the catholics do this, make people saints?
> Do other religions do it?
> Something like it?
> What are the rules?
> How does it happen?
> Must be lots of politics, but there must be some rules. I mean,
> can a great sinner be made a great saint? are there certain sins that
> once committed bar an individual from being blessed by the church or
> made worthy of public/religious veneration, being made a saint?
>
> When did this all get started?
> Say, I bet St. Augustine would not approve of this? Is that right?
>
> JJ O'Donnel says that SA has nothing to say to us moderns. Just one
> man's opinion, but he seems to know his stuff.

St. Augustine would have believed in "the communion of saints" as part of the
creed. (Nicean, I think) but the practice of officially canonizing certain
special saints didn't start until the early Middle Ages.

The rules for canonization require a certain number of proved miracles as I
remember it.

In my opinion St. Augustine is important to everything but as I say I'm a
complete nut on the subject of Original Sin. Believe indubitably in The Fall but
don't hold anyone personally responsible for it. It was just the system.

P.