Official dogma means little when it conflicts with other official dogmas and practices. It is merely hypocrisy. Prayers TO the dead are an appeal to an alternative mediator and infusing them with divine attributes. Despite the sophistry which attempts argue otherwise it is idolatry and idolatry is not consistent with recognizing Christ on the exclusive mediator.
......”Prayers TO the dead are an appeal to an alternative mediator and infusing them with divine attributes. Despite the sophistry which attempts argue otherwise it is idolatry and idolatry is not consistent with recognizing Christ on the exclusive mediator”.......
Exactly! Further praying to the departed is no different than occultists who do likewise...to their “other” entities.
The schema of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Principal Mysteries of the Faith, drafted for the First Vatican Council (1869-1870), includes the unique mediation of Jesus Christ as one of these principal mysteries: "Truly, therefore, Christ Jesus is mediator between God and man, one man dying for all; he made satisfaction to the divine justice for us, and he erased the handwriting that was against us. Despoiling principalities and powers, he brought us from our longstanding slavery into the freedom of sons."or
The fifth session of the Council of Trent (1546) laid out the belief in Jesus the one true mediator as the norm of Catholic faith: "[Original sin cannot be] taken away through the powers of human nature or through a remedy other than the merit of the one mediator, our Lord Jesus Christ, who reconciled us to God in his blood, having become our justice, and sanctification, and redemption."I ask you to prove that any of the official Church dogmas teach in any way other than what I have posted.