Roman Catholics and Icons

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

Blessings!
 
twf said:
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.
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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.
 
Misplaced_Book said:
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.
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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.
 
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