[CynicalBear]

>>But why mention this? Is there some suggestion that someone (or some group) is actually deifying Mary?<<

It's obvious to anyone with open eyes. Catholics give many of the attributes and glory due God alone. They claim they "venerate" her but don't realize what "venerate" is and what the word actually originally meant.

Venerate - from Latin veneratus, past participle of venerari "to reverence, worship"

[paladinan]

...and some people don't know English etymology, very well.

"Worship" = "worth-ship" = "condition of being worthy"; even in older marriage ceremonies, the bride and groom said to each other, "With my body, I thee worship"... which didn't, despite all hysterical Catholic-phobic interpretations to the contrary, mean that the bride and groom were committing idolatry. The modern meaning of the word "worship" is what used to be meant by the word "adoration" (which is now used, ironically, for babies, kittens, etc.).

[MeganC]

Thank you.