[Mrs. Don-o]

Whether the people who saw a dubius vision in a hayfield, put up a statue, and made gestures of veneration to it were worshipping it or not, I don't know. I don't even know if they were Catholic, or claimed to be. There are plenty of spurious apparitions, not approved by the Church; and there are superstitious people who pay no heed to the commandments and doctrines we have from Christ.

What I can say for sure is that the Catholic church has carefully defined what "adoration" is, and carefully distinguishes it from honor, veneration, and other forms of respect. The Church teaches that adoration ("latria") must never be offered to any creature, but to the Creator alone.

If you want to criticize idolatry, fine; but do not attribute it to the Catholic Church which already condemns it.

[William Terrell]

A major Catholic church organization put up the statue and exhibit. At lest twice I have crept pass two miles of cars parked on both side of the rural highway, presided over by state police.

This would be the same organization that runs the Catholic transmission towers on the hill that transmits, to four cardinal directions, microwave so strong that it interferres with telephones and VCRs.

No, I don't think it's a splinter organization.