Q: I have a ton of questions about saints. My friends who aren’t Catholic are saying it’s bad and even sinful to pray to saints. They’re saying that there’s nothing special about saints that their stories aren’t true and that the Church makes up stuff and that saints are no more important than anyone else. Why do we pray to them? Why do some have such random things they’re patrons of? Why do some bodies not decompose? What is a halo, exactly? What are relics? Why does the Church let our attention be put on saints and off of Jesus?

A: Just to set the record straight…saints are not more important than Jesus. The Church has never said that, taught that or thought that. If someone claims that, tell them to show you where…’cause it ain’t true.