Carlo Acutis, a teenage website developer, was attributed a second miracle by Pope Francis, advancing his path to becoming the first millennial saint.
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)
It’s interesting how catholicism is both monotheist and polytheist in a sense, there’s only one god but you still pray to all those saints to act on God’s behalf. There are so many “pagan” rites and beliefs that got somehow absorbed into the faith over time, it’s truly an amalgam of old Indo-European religions.
Also to your second point, I’m pretty sure they meant that Genesis is poetical symbolism as opposed to a literal historical account, which seems to be what most denominations nowadays that aren’t completely cuckoo crazy agree on, the Catholic church included.
