Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Happy All Saints Day, everyone.

In today's episode, I want to respond to a few objections to seeking the intercession

of the saints, or what many people call praying to the saints.

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All right, so in today's episode, I'm not going to cover every objection to seeking

the intercession of the saints, but there was a recent video put out by a group called

Abolitionist Rising that I wanted to take a look at.

Basically, the objection is that expecting Mary to be able to pray for millions of people

who seek her intercession all around the world at the same time in lots of different languages

would basically make Mary omniscient.

And so Catholics would be guilty of idolatry in treating her as being divine.

No shade on Mary whatsoever, but she's not divine, she's a human being and she's dead

and she can't hear anyone talking to her.

And on top of that, the reason we think that it kind of is worshipful to think that Mary

hears our prayers is they're back to a billion Catholics.

They say there are millions of Catholics right now praying Hail Mary's.

Are you saying that there's a dead woman in heaven who can hear all of those prayers,

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