[Colofornian]

And we're saying you're engaging in rash judgment, and ought to pluck the plank out of your own eye.

He/She said judgmentally.

As for whether it's "rash," I'm not painting a broad brush. Many Catholics do not pray to dead saints.

But pick up any newspaper and read the ad section. Inevitably, some saint is being venerated as having the "market" on answered prayers for some specialty.

It's this practice that leads me to investigate, "What is the broader foundational structure that undergirds these ads and spiritual practices?"

All I am doing is exploring that. Now if you're telling me there's no relationship between the devotion and veneration of a dead saint's tomb and those newspaper ads I read, clarify for me how I'm off-base. I'm willing to be "tutored" in this area.

[Campion]

Now if you're telling me there's no relationship between the devotion and veneration of a dead saint's tomb and those newspaper ads I read, clarify for me how I'm off-base.

I wouldn't say there's "no relationship," but the newspaper ads are basically informal folk piety. But I think it's strange that you would think a newspaper ad that says "thank you" somehow tends toward idolatry.