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I’ll look for the Vatican to release a statement condemning it. If that happens, I’ll post it. Veneration of relics is a longstanding practice in the RCC.

It’s an abomination.

Did you watch the clip @Riven? Do you think God is pleased with the practice?

That’s right. Follow Jesus and the apostles. That’s not the reason Jesus and the apostles gave for not killing their enemies.

Did Jesus and the apostles defend the Roman Empire? Was it their “moral civic duty” to do so? If you want to kill your enemies, go and do it. Jesus and the apostles didn’t, nor did they teach the followers of Jesus to do it. You would kill Christians serving in the military of other nations...

@Riven I invite you to watch this one minute clip. What we’re seeing here is the veneration of relics (specifically, the skull of a woman who lived in the 3rd century) by the Catholic Church...

How much have you read about the Crusades? The Crusaders killed Jews, Muslims, Catholics and Byzantine Christians; men, women and children. They raped, they pillaged, they tortured, they tried to force conversions. They earned their bad reputation -> doing to their enemies - and then some -...

* That’s an odd-looking dog. I wonder what the seagulls around there look like. *

They’ll answer to Jesus for not obeying his teaching.

Christians already have the right to self-defense. It has to be done in accordance with the teaching and example of Jesus and the apostles. How did they defend themselves? (Not with the weapons of the world.) That’s the way the followers of Jesus may defend themselves.

The Catholics didn’t obey the teaching and example of Jesus and the apostles. The state, not the church, has the God-given role and responsibility of protecting its citizens. Once the roles of church and state are mixed, we’re outside the bounds of the teaching of Jesus and the apostles. It’s...

It’s veneration of a relic; the skull of St. Agatha.