2006-10-14 11:14:45 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
that woman thinks too highly of herself, just b/c she has alot of money. I am not Catholic, but I don't think she deserves to be the saint of anthing, unless it's snobbery.
2006-10-14 11:17:42 · answer #1 · answered by hollyrenee21 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Saints are people in heaven or on their way to heaven. All Christians dead and alive are saints.
The Catholic Church selects some of the most extraordinary examples, does in-depth research, and canonizes them.
"By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that they practiced heroic virtue and lived in fidelity to God's grace, the Church recognizes the power of the Spirit of holiness within her and sustains the hope of believers by proposing the saints to them as models and intercessors."
Oprah Winfrey can be a saint just like any believer including you and me. However the Catholic Church probably will not canonize her.
With love in Christ.
2006-10-14 15:11:17 · answer #2 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Saints are about Catholic Church rules. Why would anyone not a Catholic be interested in such an honor?
2006-10-14 11:18:40 · answer #3 · answered by jmmevolve 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A saint is someone who is holy. To be holy you need to be a child of God. So once someone is a child of God (reborn of the spirit) having connection to God 24/7 that someone is a Saint. Catholics like to name people Saints. It is really every born again Christian is a Saint.
Is Oprah a born again Christian? Has she confessed Jesus Christ her Lord? It doesn't really matter what the Catholic leadersip thinks. What matters is what does Jesus Christ think.
The Catholic Church only names people of their catholic faith Saints.
Oprah is a very generous & caring person.
2006-10-14 11:19:30 · answer #4 · answered by t_a_m_i_l 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes you can be a saint and go anywhere you want and oprah has enough money to be a saint of all saints but we must remember it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven
2006-10-14 11:26:50 · answer #5 · answered by Me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure - most saints didn't actually consider themselves "catholic" they were simply followers of Christ.
now the question should be: can she? not unless she has been the direct recipient of or performed herself three super-natural miracles. Oprah would even find that hard.
2006-10-14 11:18:47 · answer #6 · answered by Stella Bing 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No , the church would not even give it a thought!
2006-10-14 11:16:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't bank on it...she's a media figure, she's filthy rich, and she's a black-american.
2006-10-14 11:19:35 · answer #8 · answered by ... 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
non catholics can become probably become saints after death depending on what they have done.
oprah on the other hand is an ageless pyscho ho's beast who will never die.
2006-10-14 11:17:40 · answer #9 · answered by kujigafy 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
throught the power invested in larry,
yeah sure.
2006-10-14 11:16:34 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋