Yeap, this is why Catholics also pray in Jesus’s name. Though we do often give praise to the Father and Holy Spirit at the same time. We often say “We pray (ask) this in the name of your beloved Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever.”
Just one note, the Jewish Talmud was followed by the Catholic Church which combines the prohibition on worshiping deities other than Yahweh with the prohibition on idolatry. This is as per the practice of St. Augustine. Also Deuteronomy 5:21 is used rather than Exodus 20:17.
Idols are horrible. That’s why we Catholics (and the Orthodox) don’t use them.
True. That’s why we typically don’t kneel in front of artistic renderings of angels. We don’t know what they really look like.
We do.
We don’t worship idols.
The Bible doesn’t explicitly label the Ten Commandments, so readers are free to number them however. IIRC, Catholics adopted the numbering system used by Augustine, and Protestants have mostly accepted the system introduced by Calvin. So if anything, Protestants have a novel way of numbering things, not Catholics.
Because Paul said he had become one (1 Cor. 4:15). That is, as far as I know, the farthest back a potential reference to calling a priest or bishop “Father” is, and it is Scriptural.
I almost didn’t want to respond, because it is essentially just a Gish gallop, but the actual effort required to address every point is practically non-existent. It’s clear that the OP hasn’t read much on what Catholics believe.
Hang on a sec, Dan… does the Bible say “this is the 2nd commandment”, or is this a tradition of men which you have adopted for yourself?
So do statues. They’re different purposes, mind you. Catholics don’t treat statues as ‘idols’ – they’re reminders of real people in heaven and of Jesus. They help us remember these important people in our lives, and they act as a visual aid in our prayer. But… praying to statues, as if they were living and real people? Catholics don’t do that. You’re confusing us with the pagans of the Old Testament, Dan…
I never knew it had a name! Thank you for broadening my vocabulary.
we have biological fathers and spiritual fathers. The Pope, bishops, and priests are spiritual fathers just as St. Paul said when he told Timothy he was his spiritual father.
if you want to quote please note the source of the quote.
Don’t even bother asking, he obviously made them up, and apparently has no interest in critical examination of his positions, because if he took even half a second to examine most of them he would realize they are nonsense.
The “Pope and God are the same” quote, commonly mentioned by anti Catholic sources, is a total distortion of what he actually said, easily found online.vsedriver:
Don’t even bother asking, he obviously made them up, and apparently has no interest in critical examination of his positions, because if he took even half a second to examine most of them he would realize they are nonsense.
To be fair, they’re probably assertions that he learned from sources he trusts, so he believes the truthfulness of the claims.
Right. We all do that sometimes.
It’s sort of fascinating to me how long these “urban legend” type of things can live on despite all evidence to the contrary. But there will always be someone out there who is hearing it for the first time and finds it credible before coming across any facts or counter-arguments that would dispute it.
We didn’t take it out.