AngelicArtistry's GoToHeaven Jophiel's Game Question 43
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is a kind of exaggerated belief and reverence of angels and is condemned by the Catholic Church, for such worship is due exclusively to God.
In the early Christian Church, there was considerable discussion and, at times, confusion over the proper way of honoring the angelic servants of the Lord. Some felt it was entirely appropriate to honor them, but others felt is smacked of idolatry, a charge to which the Church was exceedingly sensitive in its first centuries, struggling as it was with the forces of paganism.
Gradually, however, the revering of angels was permitted, leading to the extensive listings of angels and angelic choirs by such writers and theologians as Dionysius the Areopagite.
By the eighth century, however, Church officials felt that the speculation was increasingly excessive, so in 745 a council of leaders was convened in Rome. Here a group of angels was removed from the list of angels to whom it was proper to give veneration (Adimus, Tubuass, Raguel, Sabaoth, Simiel, Inias, and Uriel).
The modern Church, particularly since Vatican Council II (1962-1965), has deemphasized the place of angels, and today __________________ is not a common problem faced by the Church, although some critics of the New Age movement warn against an understandable obsession with angelic intervention.
What is this worship of angels called?