Do Catholics Worship Relics of Saints?
They do not worship relics as they worship God, by adoration. If you mean worship in the sense of honor or veneration, then Catholics certainly venerate the relics of Saints. The law, “Honor thy father and thy mother,” extends to their persons, body and soul; to their reputations, and to all connected with them. We reverence their remains even after death. And if we are not to venerate the remains of relics of the Saints who have been so entirely consecrated to God, are we to desecreate them? Or are we to be blandly indifferent to them as to the bleached bones of some dead animal lying in the fields? The Catholic doctrine, forbidding adoration, yet commanding respect and veneration, is the only possible Christian conduct. Thesis: The veneration of relics is licit and useful. This thesis embodies an article of faith. Proof: The 7th Ecumenical Council (A.D. 787) – condemned “those who dare to reject any one of the things which are entrusted to the Church, the Gospel, or the sign of the c
