One more thing... this is only this priest’s opinion. Nothing more. It’s no different than a few weeks ago when our new priest told everyone that “our Catholic faith teaches us that” when we die we will have no memory or recollection or awareness of our previous earthly life. We won’t know anything else but being in the presence of God. I told my wife later that I wonder if anyone told Moses and Abraham that when they appeared to Jesus on the mountain. For that matter, if our priest is correct (which he is most assuredly not), why do we even bother to pray to saints? Why bother to even pray to Mary?
Hopefully we’ll be successful in getting rid of this guy pretty soon.
Yea, how about the New Testament story of the rich man in hell who wanted Abraham to warn his brothers? How about in Revelation when the saints cry out to the Lamb for justice?
Priests are only human. They can be wrong in their theology. People act as though they are perfected when they are ordained. The only perfection in the Church is her Head, Jesus and her soul, the Holy Spirit. The body, us, is way imperfect.