How to Make Friends With a Saint
St. Clare of Assisi is the patron saint of television – something I didn’t actually know in the 1990s when I was working in that…
communion of saints
What is the communion of saints, and how does Mary relate to that?
The communion of saints is one of the things that I love most about being Catholic. In brief, it’s the belief that there’s a family…
Why do we have to pray to the saints? Are they not human like any other? How sure are we that they are in heaven?
Yes, the saints are human just like ourselves. They are in no way gods or super-humans. In the early church, the word “saint” was used…
Do Catholics pray to Mary? Do they consider her a Deity?
Devotion to Mary goes back a long way in the Catholic church. But Catholics do not believe that Mary is divine and we don’t pray…