No, that’s, different, you see!
She wasn’t a surrogate, she was just raped by a ghost who’s also her son, which is of course totally fine and wholesome!
The Roman Catholic Church, always ready to take on the real issues in society. /s
Lol. I mean, I get the reason that surrogacy can be exploitative. But considering the literal foundation of the religion… ‘Nuance? Never heard of her.’ says the Catholic Church.
Would you care to explain that thought process? I mean the idolatry part. Inconsistency is pretty common along religions and nearly universal among Cousins Christian ones. I say that as a Christian, so I’m not even putting them down about it in particular.
But idolatry in particular from Catholics? That accusation is usually not based in the actual faith but I’m in outside interpretations. Still, I’m open to being incorrect.
Edited because I am the worst phone typist ever.
Basically this comes down to the canon of saints, and the practice of “asking a saint to pray to god for you” as a prayer. The indirection here is paper-thin veil over what strongly resembles polytheism, right down to various saints having specific charges for whatever is troubling you in life, and universal iconography for the most popular ones. I agree that this comes down to external interpretation, as the internal dogma is pretty clear about what this is. But just like with transubstantiation, the outside observer isn’t given enough context to reach the same conclusions as the church.
Anecdotally, I’ve heard the phrasing “pray to Saint Luke” rather than “ask Saint Luke to pray for you” more often than not.
Their praying to and even worshiping of various saints falls firmly into idolatry. Even going so far as to build statues, pendants, and other “holy” symbols and leaving offerings to them.
One of the commandments (second, i think) says not to create idols of anything in the heavens or on earth. Walk into any catholic church, and you’ll quickly see this is completely ignored.
So much so in fact that this commandment has been removed and the last commandment (not desiring other people’s stuff) has been split to two: don’t desire stuff, don’t desire other people’s women (later hanged to spouse).
I don’t give a damn what the Poop has to say about anything.
