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did you do this on purpose?

No but that art DOES rend flesh

what's a cafeteria catholic

A Catholic who picks and chooses from the Catechism like they’re picking a meal from the cafeteria

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If a catholic priest during the scholastic era discovered how to do magic in a supremely spectacular way, and could demonstrably prove that it was not from an unholy or demonic source despite said magic did not come directly from divine grace, how would their community react?

If it did not come from divine grace then it wouldn’t be considered a miracle. All things come from God and if something so spectacular was happening that wasn’t the cause of God or of natural, non-supernatural phenomenon, that would imply things completely contradictory to the Church’s teachings. And that would never happen.

But for the purposes of this question let’s assume it is a miracle from God.

What you’ve described is thaumaturgy (or wonderworking) named after St. Gregory Thaumaturgus.

The Church does investigations whenever someone reports miracles being performed. They never use the word “magic” to describe it because that word is used with the occult and would otherwise confuse people hearing it.

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