Is Catholic Devotion to relics Weird and pagan?

Father Hugh Barber next.

Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus, I'm Cy Kellett your host and maybe one of the things

that we Catholics come into some criticism for not maybe we definitely come into

some criticism for our attachment to relics and so we will defend relics a little bit in this

episode and here to do that is our good friend and and chaplain a spiritual leader and I don't know how else the category is you all around great guy Father Hugh Barber hello father

Father there is a Norbertine priest former prior of St. Michael's Abbey in Orange County.

And you should go online and look at St. Michael's Abbey. They got a new, they're building a new Abbey church.

Yes, a brand new one. I can't wait to see it okay father relics

full of relics actually the new wonderful okay so that's a lot of people find that

weird or creepy or just kind of embarrassing that Catholics are involved in this.

I've always taken the...

It seems to me a very humane thing.

It seems to me a very humane opportunity for

connection for for human connection that relics are.

How do we justify this?

Relics.

Well, there's barely and for someone who looks at the matter simply, as you mentioned from a human

point of view, there really is no reason for justifying it.

The fact that people, people, I mean, it should be naturally justifiable the thing that people find Icky is due to several centuries of

vehement anti-relic propaganda from certain quarters of non-Catholic Christianity.

Right, a kind of minimalist Christianity.

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