What Joseph Ratzinger warned: superstitions threaten the faith (it is understood that the Christian faith). It seems thus intended to give a death blow to all that have hitherto been Catholic rites. If we look at one of the more precise definitions that have been made so far, a superstition is "a belief in cause and effect that leads to a systematic and repetitive behavior that is totally ineffective in achieving what they want to achieve, but this belief system and behavior is never subjected to scientific scrutiny by those who believe and repeatedly practice ". So what is the difference between those who knock on wood invoking good fortune and who place a St. Christopher in the car to guard against accidents? The first directs the ritual to an unknown entity called" luck "and second command to capture a supernatural deities prayers and sent a protective shield that will protect you from danger. I miss a scientific study to demonstrate statistically that San Cristobal cars with fewer accidents recorded under the same circumstances, that those who do not take them.
San Cristobal, rosaries, nuns making the sign of the cross before any abnormality, lighted candles ahead of the saints, prayers, masses of the dead, pilgrimages, rites to avoid hell ... No one knows exactly where the line between superstition and religion or if they are elements of the same thing.
Ratzinger may have its own definition of what a superstition. Sure he defined as "the religious beliefs of others."
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