Carlo Acutis, a teenage website developer, was attributed a second miracle by Pope Francis, advancing his path to becoming the first millennial saint.
Shit’s embarrassing. Don’t know how people can represent the church with a straight face.
Also: when you get cancer who has the idea to pray to some rando? God’s busy, maybe this 15 year old ghost can get his attention for me.
For that matter, isn’t it sacrilege to pray to some rando? These are pretty flimsy justifications for miracles even by Catholic standards.
I have never understood why catholic iconography is fine to pray to, but other stuff = straight to hell.
While were on the topic of christian nonsense, why are adam and especially eve always portrayed with bellybuttons
I was raised Catholic and had the misfortune of going to a Catholic school, so I can give you the reasons they believe these things. To start off, I know nothing about eastern Orthodox Catholic beliefs
- Catholics believe you’re not praying to the saint or whatever, but praying through them. What they hate is praying to stuff. (I know, confusing and makes little sense)
- Probably the answer would be “artist interpretation”. One religion teacher (literally studied Catholic theology) I’ve also had said something along the lines of “Adam and Eve likely weren’t really the first humans, they were just a representation of something” (sorry I couldn’t be clearer, I never paid attention)
