Can one incorporate Catholic relics, statues, beliefs, without fully being Catholic and attending Mass and yet still be a Christian Witch?

I’m not Catholic, so it’s difficult for me to answer this, however, after studying Vodun/Voodoo (during my course of studying all those Witch books mentioned earlier), I did find out one thing: You CAN NOT be a Hougan, Borka, or Mamba (Vodun priests) if you ARE NOT Catholic, as Vodun is a branch of the Catholic Church.

Not being Catholic and never personally knowing any one who is Catholic, I’m afraid I have no idea what Mass is, so I can’t comment on that part of your question at all.

However, Catholics are not the only Christians who use relics, statues, etc. Most all Christians have crosses and crucifixes and statues/pictures of Jesus. The Mormons however, do not, so I didn’t grow up using such things. Mormons view it as a grave sin to have a cross in your home, because it is a symbol of death. They say that we should focus on the Life and teachings of Christ, not on his Death.

Well, as a teenager, I saw this Blue Lace Agate cross necklace, bought it, and wore it day and night for years. In Church, I was chided by the Bishop and the leaders and teachers and constantly told I must remove it. At the end of the year, when it came time to have our Sunday School Class picture, I was not allowed to be in the picture, unless I removed the cross. I refused to remove it saying that this was America and they had no right to not allow me to be in the picture because I was wearing a cross necklace. I stood my ground, but so did they, and I was not allowed to be in the class picture, that year or any other year since.

One day, I found a tiny local shop run my Nuns and Monks from the local Catholic Monastery and Cloister. I went in. I returned home that day, with a big rosewood rosary (which I wore on my belt the way the Monk in the store did – it’s big wooden cross glaring loudly at all the Mormons in Sunday each week), a Lady of Guadaloup rosary with beads filled with Holy Water, and a pack of laminated icon cards with gold plated pictures of Jesus and winged Archangels on them (which I glued to the outside covers of my Bible and BoM). Back at the Mormon Church, I was told by the Bishop that I was an apostate for having a cross and pictures of winged angels. (Winged angels are said by the Mormon church to be a false myth created by Satan to tempt people away from God; that real angels do not have wings, and that you can tell one of God’s Angels from one of Satan’s Angels by the fact that only Satan’s angels have wings.)

I should have left the Mormon Church back than, but I was just a teenager back than, so it wasn’t really up to me wither or not I wanted to be in Church.

Anyways, though I still believe some of the teachings of the Mormon church, the evils of wing angels and owning a cross are not among them. I still have rosaries and icons, and I still use them in my spell castings and when making Jujus.

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