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Category: Mariolatry

  • Catholic Answers – Mary as Alternative to God

    Around 45 minutes into episode #6824 of “Catholic Answers,” Vicki Thorn stated: “You know, I also want to say to our listeners, that sometimes when we’re beginning to heal, especially women, God is really sort of frightening to us, because we’re so afraid of judgment. The blessed Mother – this is Mary’s work. … This…

  • Deeper Criticism of Francis’ Typo Tweet

    “Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because [s]he is full of grace.” – Francis of Rome via Twitter about a year ago. The typo (corrected with bracketed insertion) was amusing, but there’s a bigger problem. Who is more full of grace – Mary or Jesus? Yet of Jesus it is said “he hath no…

  • Mariolatry and Externals

    Francis of Rome on March 5, 2014, as reported by the Vatican Information Service (VIS) statesd: We get used to living in a society that claims to be able to do without God, in which parents do not teach their children how to pray or how to make the sign of the Cross. This inurement…

  • Christ – Our Only Carer in John’s Repose

    In the apocryphal “Repose of St. John the Evangelist and Apostle” (found here), John is quoted as praying: Jesus is the one who plaited the crown with your own plaiting. The one who created the crown of all the saints and these many plants which transformed into people, yours is the flower which does not…

  • Mary: Quasi-Incarnation of the Holy Spirit?

    A typical accusation against Roman Catholics is that they make Mary out to be virtually a fourth member of the Trinity, converting the Trinity into a quadernity. Of course, all knowledgeable and conservative Roman Catholics disavow such a view. Nevertheless, there is a view within Roman Catholicism (meaning that it has been taught by some…

  • In Whom Is His Trust?

    Today, the Vatican Information Service reports: Benedict XVI today made a pastoral visit to Loreto, Italy, where he entrusted to the Blessed Virgin – venerated in the famous Marian shrine there – two impending ecclesial events: the Synod of Bishops on new evangelisation which is to run from 7 to 28 October, and the Year…

  • … now and at the hour of our death.

    Thanks to Steve Hays for pointing me to a recent report of man who, while trying to rescue his idol from her peril found himself her victim, as she collapsed on top of him. It is a sad story, but illustrative of the foolishness of idolatry. The idol could not pray for the man either…

  • Still Trading on the Legend of Loreto

    You may recall my friend, Dr. James White, mention the superstitious legend of Loreto a few times in the past (blog example, discussing Keating’s use of the legend). In this bizarre legend, angels lift up Mary’s house and transport it to Loreto, Italy. In the version at the link, they stop along the way in…

  • The "Here I am" Girl or the "Where were you" Girl?

    As reported by the Vatican Information Service, Benedict XVI stated (on 18 May 2012): Mary of Nazareth is the woman of a full and total “Here I am” to the divine will. In her “Yes”, repeated even when faced with the sorrow of the loss of her child, we find complete and profound beatitude”. A)…

  • How Much More Could Mary be Venerated?

    Vatican Information Service (VIS reports, 13 May 2012, Benedict XVI as follows: “As Mother of the Church, Our Lady always wants to comfort her children at the time of their greatest difficulty and suffering”, said the Pope today … . Mary is not our mother. Scripture describes the heavenly Jerusalem as our mother:Galatians 4:26 But…