its the god damn pope!!!! if he needs help going to heavon then god save us alllllllllllll
2007-08-18 21:24:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Jews prayed for the dead as shown in 2 Maccabees 12:40-46: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/2maccabees/2maccabees12.htm#40
Catholics pray for the dead (even for someone like the Pope) for the following reasons:
+ We pray that the the dead person was right with God at the time of his (or her) death. God can do anything and is not constrained by a little thing like time.
+ We pray that the dead person will not have a hard process of purgation.
Yes, Catholics believe in Purgatory.
Are you perfect now? Most people would say no.
Will you be perfect in heaven? Most people believe yes.
Purgatory (or purgation) is the process of God's love changing our imperfect selves into perfect beings.
Depending on the amount of change needed by different people this can be an easy or slightly harder process.
Everyone in purgatory is on their way to heaven.
I don't think Mother Teresa of Calcutta had a very hard time of it.
With love in Christ.
2007-08-19 13:19:02 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pope John Paul has a lot to answer for. All those priest abuse cases that happened on his watch and he never really took responsibility for cleaning up the mess and dealing with the perps. He may even have been in on the cover ups.
Yeah, he might really need to be prayed for.
2007-08-19 04:42:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pray for him while he was alive ...Once dead that's it ...either heaven or your soul will be waken at judgment day .
2007-08-19 07:52:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, that's funny.
2007-08-19 04:29:22 · answer #4 · answered by So......fee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋