Any person, place or thing which we admit to first place in our lives becomes an idol, for the first place in our hearts, mind and souls belongs to God alone. Idolatry not only refers to false pagan worship. It remains a constant temptation to faith. Idolatry consists in divinizing what is not 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.
Not only our spiritual integrity and eternity depends upon the true worship of the true God, but our sanity and worldly happiness as well. St. Luke 7. 11-16 Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In the Gospels we meet Christ the physician. His preferential love for the sick has not ceased through the centuries to draw the very special attention of Christians toward all those who suffer in body and soul. It is the source of tireless efforts to comfort them.