okay catholics, i need answers. What is with with you people worshiping mary, peter, and the pope. Those people are not holy, but I do have nothing against mary, and peter. They were great people and all but they weren't holy, and we should definately not worship them. and why do you listen to the pope, aern't we only supposed to listen to god?
2007-09-26 17:07:20 · 11 answers · asked by piano guy 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
one more thing, does the pope recieve words from god
2007-09-26 17:19:34 · update #1
Catholic answering......we DO NOT worship anyone other than God. Sorry.
Would you please go learn a little about Catholicism before asking foolish questions. And learn it from a true source of Catholic knowlege and information, not perpetuated lies from another Catholic hater.
2007-09-26 17:10:36 · answer #1 · answered by Augustine 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Catholics ONLY worship God. They do not now and never have worshipped anyone other than God. They as the saints in heaven to pray for them just as they ask Christians still on earth to pray for them. If you believe the word of God, when it tells us that we will not die but have eternal life, then you should have no problem with this.
They believe that the Pope is the successor to Peter - the leader of the Church, chosen by God.
For some information on what Catholics really believe check out this web site http://www.catholic.com
2007-09-27 00:34:19 · answer #2 · answered by ozchristianguy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You infidel! Mary was not holy? Peter wasn't? Every Pope has a lot on you - they don't waste their words like you do. And yes, they often do recieve words from GOD. Peter always did.
Silly fool, wake up!
2007-09-27 01:20:21 · answer #3 · answered by Travis J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latria is a Greek term used in Catholic theology to mean adoration, which is the highest form of worship or reverence and is directed only to the Holy Trinity.
Latria is sacrificial in character, and may be offered only to God. Catholics offer other degrees of reverence to the Blessed Virgin Mary and to the Saints; these non-sacrificial types of reverence are called Hyperdulia and Dulia, respectively. Hyperdulia is essentially a heightened degree of dulia provided only to the Blessed Virgin.
In Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Anglo Catholic theology, veneration is a type of honor distinct from the worship due to God alone. Church theologians have long adopted the terms latria for the sacrificial worship due to God alone, and dulia for the veneration given to saints and icons. Catholic theology also includes the term hyperdulia for the type of veneration specifically paid to Mary, mother of Jesus, in Catholic tradition. This distinction is spelled out in the dogmatic conclusions of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (787), which also decreed that iconoclasm (forbidding icons and their veneration) is a heresy that amounts to a denial of the incarnation of Jesus.
Veneration is a religious symbolic act giving honor to someone by honoring an image of that person, particularly applied to saints.
The Blessed Virgin, as manifesting in a sublimer manner than any other creature the goodness of God, deserves from us a higher recognition and deeper veneration than any other of the saints; and this peculiar cultus due to her because of her unique position in the Divine economy, is designated in theology hyperdulia, that is dulia in an eminent degree. It is unfortunate that neither our own language nor the Latin possesses in its terminology the precision of the Greek. The word latria is never applied in any other sense than that of the incommunicable adoration which is due to God alone. But in English the words adore and worship are still sometimes used, and in the past were commonly so used, to mean also inferior species of religious veneration and even to express admiration or affection for persons living upon the earth. So David "adored" Jonathan. In like manner Miphiboseth "fell on his face and worshipped" David (2 Samuel 9:6).
2007-09-29 01:13:50 · answer #4 · answered by cashelmara 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We don't worship the pope.
All doctrinal teachings involve the issues of faith and morals. Although every encyclical letter addressed to the world on matters of faith and morals in not an infallible pronouncement, if the Pope restates a long-held teaching of the Church (for example, the evil of artificial contraception or that priestly ordination is reserved to men) a good case can be made for the infallibility of that restatement, even if the Pope does not specifically identify his encyclical as infallible, since he is definitively proclaiming that a certain doctrine of faith or morals is to be believed.
Catholics cannot disregard non-infallible statements from the Pope or their Bishop. Divine assistance is given to the Pope and the bishops in communion with him when they, as part of their ordinary teaching duties, propose a teaching that leads to a better understanding of divine revelation in matters of faith and morals. The faithful are to submit humbly and adhere sincerely to the teachings of the Pope, even when he is not speaking infallibly, because his ordinary teaching is an extension of his extraordinary charism.
Regarding your second question we do not worship Mary or the saints either.
First of all, we don't pray to saints but through them. Catholics can and do pray directly to God; the prayers of the Mass are directed to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Prayer to God is the most important thing we can do, but there is nothing wrong with asking the angels and saints to intercede with God in our behalf. After all, the angels witnessed the fall of one of their own (Satan) while they remained obedient to God and the saints faced the same problems and temptations that confront us, and overcame them with lives of holiness. No Christian hesitates to ask their friends and neighbors to pray for their intentions and needs. The greatest friends we have are those who are in heaven cheering us on as we struggle to overcome our sinful nature and live the Christian life.
All through the Old Testament there are examples of people (Abraham, Moses, the prophets) praying for the benefit of others; and of honor given to angels (Joshua 5:14; Daniel 8:17). In the New Testament we read "The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" (James 5:16, NIV). Who is more righteous than one who has achieved their place in heaven? Just because someone has ceased his or her earthly life doesn't mean that they are beyond our reach, or that they have ceased caring for us. The saints are alive in heaven as 1 Corinthians 15:22 tells us and Revelation 5:8 tells us that the prayers of the saints are offered to God. The saints are God's masterpieces and what artist would say "Don't look at my works, pay attention only to me?" We give honor to God by praising His accomplishments.
When Jesus established his Church, He didn't establish one Church on earth and another unrelated Church in heaven. This is why, when we recite the Apostles' Creed or the Nicene Creed (the Profession of Faith in Mass), we say that "we believe in the communion of saints"; we are all part of one spiritual community, God's family. As family, we care about what happens to one another. When Jesus was asked what was the greatest commandment, He replied that the first was to love God, and the second was to love our neighbor. The saints in heaven keep this second commandment by interceding for us and helping us to love God. We are all alive in Christ (1 Corinthians 15:22) and since we affirm the resurrection of the dead, asking the saints for assistance should pose no problem.
Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. He is the only pathway linking heaven and earth. The saints are ones who have lived the Christian life and received their eternal reward; they have walked in Jesus' footsteps. We ask that by their example and assistance, that we may walk in those footsteps as well. We do not pray to the saints to avoid Jesus who is the way, the truth, and the life, but we do ask for additional assistance in directing our needs through Jesus to God the Father.
2007-09-27 02:58:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Think of a cell phone that uses a repeater tower to boost its signal. Then think of the Pope as the successor to the Apostle Peter. That would make the Pope the repeater boosting God's strength.
2007-09-27 00:17:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
OK! AGAIN I WILL SAY, WE DO NOT AND I MEAN DO NOT WORSHIP MARY, PETER AND THE POPE ONLY GOD
I just wish people would understand that!
2007-09-27 01:01:00 · answer #7 · answered by TigerLily 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry. I thought your question was going to be the punch line to a joke.
Like:
What can't this man do? Marry.
What does this man wish he could use? His peter.
Who is this man? The pope.
2007-09-27 00:14:22 · answer #8 · answered by BAL 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Weren't they a folk-pop trio from the '60s...?
2007-09-27 00:26:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Listen to the good thoughts of anybody but not to worship them and pray or kneel before them for prayers. True living God do not like it.
Catholics ATTENTION
jtm
2007-09-27 00:13:56 · answer #10 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 6⤋