Human life finds its unity in the adoration of the one God. The commandment to worship the Lord alone integrates man and saves him from an endless disintegration. Idolatry is a perversion of man's innate religious sense. An idolater is someone who "transfers his indestructible notion of God to anything other than God." CCC 2114
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In today's reading, the Catechism addresses grave sins against the First Commandment, including superstition, idolatry, divination, magic, and astrology. Each of these robs the honor due to God and places it instead upon trivial things and ultimately, ourselves. When done with the intent to bring harm to others, they can be even more sinful.
The Catechism Companion Vol III notes:
Superstition can even happen with Catholic devotions. It is superstitious "to attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance..." (CCC 2111). Our challenging invitation is to match the external with the internal. "Man commits idolatry whenever he honors and reveres a creature in place of God, whether this be... power, pleasure," politics, or anything else (CCC 2113)... The Church does not presuppose that divination and magic are empty. We must avoid them because they are evil, powerful, and dangerous. (p. 66)
Finally, Fr. Ambrose Criste has a good video on this:
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