The Catholic Church doesn't "make" anyone a saint, she only recognizes what God has done, testifies to it, and celebrates it.
The term "saint" comes from a French word, which comes from the Latin word meaning "holy". A "saint" is therefore a "holy person" or "holy one" ... in languages other than English, there is typically no linguistic difference between those two terms.
The word is used in Scripture both in reference to what Christians are called to be here and now, and in reference to departed believers (cf Matthew 27:52) and all believers.
“The Catholic Church doesn’t “make” anyone a saint, she only recognizes what God has done, testifies to it, and celebrates it.”
Nonsense.
There is scriptural basis for “the saints”, in scripture, which requires nothing that the Roman Catholic Church does to name, officially, saints by Roman Catholic institutional standards those it consecrates as “saints”, officially. That process “makes” saints by Roman Catholic institutional practices. That is not something G-d “recognizes” just something the Roman Catholic Church recognizes; in spite of the fact that nothing the Roman Catholic Church or any Church does will “recognize” a true saint in G-d’s eyes as ONLY G-d knows who in fact such persons truly are. The rest is institutional arrogance.
The Church today simply confirmed what I had thought of these two Popes for a number of yearsl that they are SAINTS.
There must be thousands of Catholic Churches out there since they all believe something different...This comes from an article about the canonization:
Francis took a deep breath and paused for a moment before reciting the saint-making formula in Latin at the start of the ceremony, as if moved by the history he was about to make in canonizing two popes at once.
He said that after deliberating, consulting and praying for divine assistance "we declare and define that Blessed John XXIII and John Paul II be saints and we enroll them among the saints, decreeing that they are to be venerated as such by the whole church."
Your religion makes these guys your saints...God has nothing to do with it...
The term "saint" comes from a French word, which comes from the Latin word meaning "holy". A "saint" is therefore a "holy person" or "holy one" ... in languages other than English, there is typically no linguistic difference between those two terms.
What came first,Latin or Hebrew??? The Hebrews knew what a saint was before the first Latin crawled on the carpet...
If she would only take the same approach to the Scriptures ...
The Catholic Church doesn't "make" anyone a saint a book part of the canon, she only recognizes what God has done, testifies to it, and celebrates it.