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To: steplock
Let the review stand, please. The Mary remark is not anti-Catholic, he gave both sides. Maybe we should start another thread. ;)
7 posted on 02/21/2004 4:04:56 PM PST by madison10
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To: madison10
Let the review stand, please. The Mary remark is not anti-Catholic, he gave both sides. Maybe we should start another thread.

With all due respect, he did not give both sides. He stated that Catholics think of Mary as "divine." The divinity is now and always has been reserved for the Trinity in Catholicism, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Mary is not divine for Catholics. When Catholics pray to her they are praying to an intercessor between Jesus Christ and the prayerful, not to a divinity. There are some extreme Marians who have lobbied the current Pope to name her "co-redemptrix," but the Magisterium so far has rebuffed them, and I do not believe they will ever succeed in assigning her that status. But even if they did succeed, she still would not become "divine." It's simply an error to say otherwise.

190 posted on 02/21/2004 7:41:53 PM PST by beckett
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