Very interesting in light of the first reading of today's Mass: Ezechiel 9:1-7; 10:18-22.
Ez. 9: 4 "Pass through the city, through Jerusalem,and mark a 'Thau' on the foreheads of those who moan and groan over all the abominations that are practiced within it."
All in Jerusalem are to be slain, except those marked with the cross! (who are so marked because they morn the abominations that are committed therein). Saved by the cross!
There is another place at least in the Hebrew scriptures where this reference to the salvation that comes from the cross. Moses with the serpent on the pole: Numbers 21:9. So some images are to be revered, and by them we are to be saved, according to the Lord Himself's bidding and Moses' doing! Pace Envangelical Protestants who hypocritically and contradictorily condemn all use of images (all the while having and unscrupulously using money with images of men, etc.).
Why do you think that we Catholics venerate the corpus of Christ on the cross and repeatedly make the sign of the cross upon ourselves and upon all of the things that we consecrate to God? It is an express conformity to the sacred scripture, as is Christ Himself, i.e. the Messiah, and all of the authentic Catholic Faith for all ages! Those who consider the Catholic Faith contrary to sacred scripture do not know sacred scripture or the Catholic Faith! It is a sign of grave ignorance of one or the other, and, typically, both.
