[15] despoiling the principalities and the powers, he made a public spectacle of them, leading them away in triumph by it. [16] Let no one, then, pass judgment on you in matters of food and drink or with regard to a festival or new moon or sabbath. [17] These are shadows of things to come; the reality belongs to Christ.
(CCC 2111) Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. It can even affect the worship we offer the true God, e.g., when one attributes an importance in some way magical to certain practices otherwise lawful or necessary. To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition (Cf. Mt 23:16-22). (CCC 2138) Superstition is a departure from the worship that we give to the true God. It is manifested in idolatry, as well as in various forms of divination and magic. (CCC 2110) The first commandment forbids honoring gods other than the one Lord who has revealed himself to his people. It proscribes superstition and irreligion. Superstition in some sense represents a perverse excess of religion; irreligion is the vice contrary by defect to the virtue of religion.
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