The Voodoo Religion and the Catholic influences

Practitioners of Voodoo believe in steering their lives by managing personal bonds with Lwa via devotional objects and indulging in ceremonies of spiritual presentations. The fact that Voodoo finds its roots in Catholic Church has a chief role to play in this. They hold a belief that their God is in constant communication with the priests and not with the common person, much like the Catholic who use prayer beads and the Virgin Mary, among other things, in prayer.

Just like Voodoo Spirits, the Catholic Church has different well-esteemed saints with a similar role of prioritized duty. Adoration and reverence of sacred objects by the Catholics also relates to the Voodoo beliefs that sacred objects are permeated with spiritual characteristics. Catholic churches therefore venerate corporal remains of saints.

Voodoo followers also believe that spirits have the ability to transform into living beings after occupying a person or thing, following closely with the Catholic belief that a Eucharist transforms into the actual body and blood of Christ during Mass.

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