Roman Catholics and Icons

[twf]

The theology is different.

Current events speak to this difference. Since your Vatican II council, neo-iconoclasm has gripped the Latin Church. While there are steps to combat this, it has taken a deep hold in many places. To remove the Icons is unthinkable, yet many in your communion have no problem stripping everything.

a sad development. I say that without a hint of smugness. The thing I admired most was your classic churches…The Latin Church architecture was amazing.

Do you have any evidence that this “neo-iconoclasm” extends beyond North America? I always blamed it on post-Vatican II Protestant influence. I and others on this thread have testified to the intense and omnipresent veneration of icons in Latin American Latin Catholicism. Can anyone imagine a Mexican parish without streams of the faithful venerating a replica of the divinely created icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe? Likewise Our Lady of Altagracia in the Dominican. Certainly even in North America many dioceses are reversing this trend.

 

[landon13]

I like icons sometimes more than statues for me personally. I just find icons are harder to find than statues.

Blessings!

 

[Misplaced_Book]

Do you have any evidence that this “neo-iconoclasm” extends beyond North America? I always blamed it on post-Vatican II Protestant influence. I and others on this thread have testified to the intense and omnipresent veneration of icons in Latin American Latin Catholicism. Can anyone imagine a Mexican parish without streams of the faithful venerating a replica of the divinely created icon of Our Lady of Guadalupe? Likewise Our Lady of Altagracia in the Dominican. Certainly even in North America many dioceses are reversing this trend.

I was by no means saying it was universal, just that it is a worrying trend that has taken hold in multiple places. It is good to hear that you are fighting against it and that it has not taken root in Latin America.

 

[MorEphrem]

I was by no means saying it was universal, just that it is a worrying trend that has taken hold in multiple places. It is good to hear that you are fighting against it and that it has not taken root in Latin America.

I would also add that there is a different theological focus in the Western veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Eastern approach to icons.