Actually, such images represent just one more way to express the Incarnation, that Jesus became a human being, one of us. Children understand this automatically. One Christmas, I took my four year old granddaughter into the Cathedral and showed her the Infant of Prague. The Roman Catholic Church contains the full deposit of Truth because it is the one Church founded by Jesus Christ. Over the centuries, a treasury of devotional riches has unfolded to illustrate those truths.
Icons are religious images which contain symbols of profound meaning.
It was by way of these sacramentals that I was drawn into the Church. Mine was conversion by beauty, a romance that led to the faith which is now the bedrock of my being. How, God, with exquisite attention to every detail, matched the inmost secret longings of my heart, how He called me by name. I fell in love with an image and a concept that appeared inscrutable, until image and concept merged into a Person, the Person of Our Lord Jesus Christ. I look back at the past and find certain ordinary events reshaped by grace, transformed into epiphanies, revelations of a faith which was to become more intimate than I could ever have imagined.