voodoo

[Guadalupe2694]

Hi. To start I am a very devout Catholic that needs help. I just bought a voodoo doll from New Orleans as a souvenir. My aunt who is a catholic but practices voodoo says i should use it. I said no becaus it would be going against God but she said not really. When she does a ceremony she replaces voodoo gods with Catholic saints so she is really praying to the saints. Is it right to do this? Also she said the voodoo queen Marie Laveau was a devout Catholic but also practiced voodoo. Help me!!!:crying:

 

[_SweetPea]

I don’t know anything about voodoo queens, but I know if someone was practicing voodoo then they weren’t devout Catholics. We don’t believe in trying to force the will of other people to our own will. We submit our will to the will of God. The two are not compatible, no matter what some voodoo queen who wants your money will tell you.

I looked her up and it sounds like she was the queen of scams! Drama, gossip, hush money, smoke and mirrors. She was anything but holy.

I didn’t read any of the other links, but this page will tell you how Christianity and voodoo are not compatible.
allabouttheoccult.org/voodoo-religion.htm

And this page tells you about the spell-binding power of the voodoo queen to market in gossip and rip you off.

travellady.com/Issues/Issue74/74G-voodoo.htm
Marie Laveau was an intelligent, statuesque woman of African, Caucasian and Native American ancestry. Laveau¹s work as a hairdresser gained her entrance into the homes of New Orleans’ most prestigious families. Many society women confessed their secrets and scandals to Laveau, who used this knowledge to her advantage. Laveau would charge desperate wives a fee to “unhex” their unfaithful husbands. She would then visit these husbands and let them know that she had soothed their wives¹ anger; these grateful men would offer Marie Laveau more money to show their appreciation.

By 1830 Laveau had not only gotten rich; she had also become the undisputed Queen of Voodoo in New Orleans. She organized public Voodoo ceremonies in Congo Square (now Louis Armstrong Park) and at Bayou St. John. Crowds made up of 6-7000 people would gather in Congo Square, dancing and swaying in unison to melodies played on bamboo flutes. In order to further entice paying audiences, Laveau heightened the sensationalism of these ceremonies by including new mystical elements, such as incense, holy water and statues of saints.

 

[allhers]

Q: I was told by my father-in-law, who is Methodist, that their missionaries in Haiti are reporting that the Catholic Church there condones the practice of voodoo. True?

A: Voodoo is a non-Christian religion that is incompatible with the Catholic faith, and the Catholic Church in Haiti does not tolerate voodoo.

It is no more fair for a Protestant missionary to go to Haiti and return declaring that the Catholic Church in Haiti condones voodoo than it would be for a Catholic missionary from Haiti to come to the U.S. and return declaring that the Protestant churches in America condone the New Age movement.
(It’s at the bottom of this page.)
catholic.com/thisrock/2001/0105qq.asp

 

[Ohwesty]

I have to admit that voodoo both fascinates and frightens me. I think it can definitely open the door to unclean spirits.

I read that when African slaves were imported to America, they were taught Christianity, but some of them continued to hold their traditional beliefs. In the Caribbean they replaced their “gods” with statues of saints so their Catholic plantation owners wouldn’t become suspicious.

The result was a blending of traditional West African beliefs with Christianity. Today, many Afro-American folk religions continue to be practiced in the Caribbean. They include Voodoo in Haiti, Santeria in Cuba, Shango in Trinidad, and Kuminia or Pocomania in Jamaica.

But these cults are incompatible with Catholicism.

• Westy