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Oct. 22, 2024

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 22, 2024 /Christian Newswire/ -- Protestants often say that Catholicism puts too many intermediary steps between us and Jesus. To them, most Catholic doctrines, prayers, traditions, and sacraments just get in the way of a believer's personal relationship with the Lord. And perhaps no Catholic doctrine fits this description for them more than the communion of saints.

In The Saints Pray for You, the latest book from Catholic Answers Press, Karlo Broussard (Purgatory Is for Real) tackles this pervasive Protestant objection and shows that our beliefs about the saints are not a manmade distraction from the pure worship of Christ but part of God's revealed plan for cooperation among all his faithful—in this world and the next.

First up is the Catholic belief that the saints in heaven are able to hear our prayers and have the power (and the desire) to intercede with God on our behalf. Using Scripture and commonsense philosophy, Broussard builds an airtight case that anticipates every Protestant argument.

Then he patiently takes the reader through all aspects of saintly devotion—the relationship we build with our heavenly brothers and sisters through prayer, veneration, and fond remembrance in relics and sacred art—and shows it to be entirely biblical and reasonable.
 
"The Catholic vision of our life and salvation in Christ is rich and deep," says Todd Aglialoro, director of publishing for Catholic Answers, "and the communion of saints is one of the most powerful expressions of that richness. God does not grace us in isolation, locked in a zero-sum relationship with him. As Karlo Broussard shows, he joins us together in a single body, a loving family, in which all members labor to help bring each other to our common home in heaven."

About the Author:
Karlo Broussard, DPhil., is an apologist for Catholic Answers.

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