Shetler

This quasi-certainty is founded on the Church’s sanctity, which St. Paul calls “holy and immaculate, without stain or wrinkle or anything of that sort.” The Bride of Christ must indeed possess a particularly effective intercessory power deserving of a middle cate-gory between the perfect merits of Christ and the imperfect merits of men.

- Joseph Shetler, “Some Contemporary Questions on Sacramentals Considered according to the Scholastic Theology of Their Mode of Efficacy.” (STL Thesis, Angelicum, 2007), 16.