There is, of course, a vast difference between the communion of saints and the communication to dead people.
Do you believe that only one of the below is God?
Mark 12:27
He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye therefore do greatly err.
R you asking stupid questions for the sake of amusement?
Good, please tell me where I can directly talk, face to face, with any deceased saints? BTW, I do that regularly at church, except the saints there are not dead yet.
According to that logic any attempt in communication with God is in vain too.
Have you seen God face to face?
Is God dead? I specifically asked where I could converse with a deceased person. Or, are the saints demi-gods?
The statements the Pope makes should be in line with Catholic Doctrine
One charge made against it is that the saints in heaven cannot even hear our prayers, making it useless to ask for their intercession. However, this is not true. As Scripture indicates, those in heaven are aware of the prayers of those on earth. This can be seen, for example, in Revelation 5:8, where John depicts the saints in heaven offering our prayers to God under the form of "golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints." But if the saints in heaven are offering our prayers to God, then they must be aware of our prayers. They are aware of our petitions and present them to God by interceding for us.
Some might try to argue that in this passage the prayers being offered were not addressed to the saints in heaven, but directly to God. Yet this argument would only strengthen the fact that those in heaven can hear our prayers, for then the saints would be aware of our prayers even when they are not directed to them!
In any event, it is clear from Revelation 5:8 that the saints in heaven do actively intercede for us. We are explicitly told by John that the incense they offer to God are the prayers of the saints. Prayers are not physical things and cannot be physically offered to God. Thus the saints in heaven are offering our prayers to God mentally. In other words, they are interceding.
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Praying to the Saints | Catholic Answers
I don't know to whom you're talking, but I've not forwarded any recommendation of such.
Don't you believe in the communion of saints?
I do! The living believers in Christ.
So at the moment of our death our soul dies with our body is that what you believe?
Now is that what I said my dear friend. That is what you got from my post????
My dear fiend, I said I looked forward to communion with the saints who are alive.
Our souls DO NOT DIE!!!! We can not have communion with the dead spirits of believers because they are in heaven and we are on the earth.
All believers in the Lord Jesus Christ as SAINTS and when we have communion it is with those with which we partake.
Our difference is that I believe that we're all alive at this very moment in Christ our Lord.
I also believe that as such we can communicate with each other through Christ the one mediator, the bridge between heaven and earth.
I also hold a different view on who're saints and who's not. All believers ain't saints, but that's a discussion for a different thread.
I always find it curious that, if one follows Catholic theology, the vast majority of saints lived and died in the first century. After that there were just a handful for each century. Either God's definition changed after the New Testament was written or people were not good enough after that time.
Our difference is that I believe that we're all alive at this very moment in Christ our Lord.
I also believe that as such we can communicate with each other through Christ the one mediator, the bridge between heaven and earth.
I also hold a different view on who're saints and who's not. All believers ain't saints, but that's a discussion for a different thread.
Declared saints are just that, declared. There are lots of lots of saints that isn't canonized you know.
The canonized ones are just those whom the the church knows are in heaven and in a position where they can pray for us.
You knew this right?
The problem that Pope Francis has at times is that he assumes too much from his audience. And this has been a gripe of many Catholics concerning him, because he will say something, and not clarify what he meant. I think he is trying to force people to think a little on their own, but he just doesn't realize that most people don't take the time to get past the words.I'm asking you if you think some of his statements have been recently.
Did you agree with Pope Francis when he stated that Atheists can go to heaven if they "do good"?
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Pope Francis: "We must meet one another doing good," the pope said. To those who say: " 'But I don't believe, Father, I am an atheist!' " the pope said, "But do good: We will meet one another there."
So, was the pope saying that people can go to heaven, even if they don't believe in God?
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Such a statement is not a matter of opinion nor is it politically charged, rather what he said here involves a matter of the Faith in the most explicit sense. Do you believe Pope Francis was defending traditional Catholic doctrine with his statement that those who deny Jesus (atheists) can enter heaven?
If you're going to claim he's expressing an opinion, then I would argue that he has neglected his duty to defend doctrine by speaking lackadaisically, given what he said is an almost wholesale contradiction of the cornerstone of Christian soteriology, and speaking in such a manner poses a detriment to adherents of Catholicism worldwide who may not notice that he was merely presenting an opinion.