[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Try reading the comments of former nun Mary Ann Collins that are provided as a link on my posting from last night. The Salve Regina is not worshiping Mary? Come on, open your eyes! Alfonsus de Liguori (1696-1787) was a principal proponent of the Marianist Movement. In his book The Glories of Mary, he claims that Mary was given rulership over one half of the kingdom of God; Mary rules over the kingdom of mercy and Jesus rules over the kingdom of justice. He writes that there is no salvation outside of Mary and that people should pray to Mary as a mediator and look to her as an object of trust for answered prayer.

1 Timothy 2:5 reads, "For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,". Where does it say that we need a mediator to pray to Our Mediator, Jesus? Why do we need a mediator to pray to Our Mediator, Jesus?

Please provide me with the Scripture verses that explain where Mary was appointed to rule over half of the Kingdom of God and that salvation comes only through Mary. Unless you can show me scripture to substantiate such claims, I must take them as unscriptural and man-made, yet the Roman church canonized him as a 'Saint' and named him a 'Doctor of the Church'.

Have you now "got that"?

[boatbums]

Please provide me with the Scripture verses that explain where Mary was appointed to rule over half of the Kingdom of God and that salvation comes only through Mary. Unless you can show me scripture to substantiate such claims, I must take them as unscriptural and man-made, yet the Roman church canonized him as a 'Saint' and named him a 'Doctor of the Church'.

You won't, of course, find any of that in Scripture because it was NOT taught or believed by the Apostles or the early church. Such blasphemy developed much later as the Catholic Church drifted further away from Biblical Christianity. What is remarkable to me is that some FRoman Catholics here have no problem whatsoever with the ramblings of a "saint" because whatever he said or practiced has the tacit approval of their church and their church cannot EVER be wrong. Instead, those of us non-Catholic Christians will be deemed anti-catholic bigots for daring to expose or comment negatively about such. In more dire times we would have been judged "heretics" by an Inquisition and probably burned at the stake if we refused to renounce our faith. Thank God for small favors! ;o)