# Father Solanus Casey Was A Living Saint

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 24, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-solanus-casey-was-a-living-saint/968492 "2022-07-24T23:13:53Z")\
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There was this thing called “The Reformation” a few years back, where some clergymen decided that there isn’t any reason that God and Man can’t communicate directly.

These days, that whole idea of saintly intercession is almost overwhelmingly Catholic and frankly kind of medieval- few Protestant denominations believe it’s necessary or even valid. Some do celebrate saints (Anglican/Episcopalian), but more as a people whose saintly qualities are worthy of emulation or contemplation, not as advocates on your behalf in Heaven.

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**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-solanus-casey-was-a-living-saint/968492/42 "2022-07-28T03:58:57Z")

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> [@k9bfriender](#):
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> Show me any instance of faith actually _working_, and I’ll see if _my_ understanding is what is actually lacking here.

Sorry, that’s not what I meant. I meant that it does not take anything factual, such as reliable results of prayer (if such could even be determined) for the people who want to have faith in someone as a saint to do so. And mostly I meant that to demand verifiable results is the antithesis of what faith is all about. Calling someone a saint is an act of pure faith precisely because nothing about it can be verified.

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**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/father-solanus-casey-was-a-living-saint/968492/43 "2022-07-28T12:36:13Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> Calling someone a saint is an act of pure faith precisely because nothing about it can be verified.

But they have claimed to have verified it.

So, it is not faith in a saint that people are asked to have, but faith in these men.

Anyway, I didn’t actually say anything about faith in my post. I was saying what it would take for me to believe it was a miracle. The theologians just have a much lower standard.

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