Pope Leo on How to Avoid Superstition: ‘Prudent’ Evaluation of Supernatural Phenomena
‘Evaluate such events prudently, through humble discernment and in accordance with the teachings of the Church,’ the Holy Father said on Nov. 13.
‘Evaluate such events prudently, through humble discernment and in accordance with the teachings of the Church,’ the Holy Father said on Nov. 13.
Today’s prodigal sons have squandered their wealth to wallow in occultism. It is time for Catholics to repent of our bland deism, boldly proclaim Jesus Christ and his Church, and call our brothers and sisters home.
‘Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. … To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition.’ (CCC 2111)
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