It's a must to believe in holiness of a specific saint?

[Loui]

Hello,
I believe in saints and their intercession
but am asking if I don’t believe or accept a cannonization of a one saint it’s a problem?
Is there a catichism about this ?
Thank you

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Yes, it’s a problem. The Church’s declaration of canonization is an official statement of the Church that the saint is in heaven and that they “practiced heroic virtue and lived in fidelity to God’s grace” (CCC 828)

http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p123a9p3.htm#828

If you reject an official statement/ teaching of the Church canonizing a saint, then you are going against Catholic teaching, and it’s a problem.

So you need to accept it.

 

[Joe_5859]

TisBearself is correct. Canonizations are infallible statements from the Church that the person is in heaven and that they practiced heroic virtue. Refusing to accept that a canonized person is a saint is not an option, unless you want to pick and choose what Catholic statements you accept or reject.

Now, this doesn’t—of course—mean that you have to have a strong devotion to each and every saint. It doesn’t mean that the person never sinned or that the person’s actions in life are beyond all criticism. You might—for example, and not to start a tangential debate on this—think that St. John Paul II’s kissing of the Koran was an ill-advised gesture. But even if that point was conceded, that doesn’t negate the sum total of his life and his great personal holiness.