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>>If it literally means dedicating oneself "entirely" to Mary without limit and without acknowledgment that Mary is a handmaid of the Lord Whom we both serve, this would, on the face of it, be "totalizing" or "divinizing" Mary.<<

This is what we have been saying all along that catholics do to Mary.

CB's postings show that.

This is another reason we disagree with "sacred" tradition as used by the rcc.

The sad part is the rcc has invested so much in promoting this false teaching they cannot back off of it now without losing all credibility. So the false teaching continues.

"This is what we have been saying all along that Catholics do to Mary."

Bullfeathers. You won't find a Catholic here who will defend a "totalizing" or "divinizing" approach to Mary. You won't find that in Catholic Biblical commentary or in the Catholic Catechism.

So you post bits of some over-the-top Mary devotees who take that approach. That doesn't mean this is Catholic doctrine or even typical Catholic practice.

I could just as well post stuff by Victoria Osteen and say, "Well, there's Protestantism for ya."

I have been linking to passages from the Catechism for years on this forum, and have seen almost zero evidence that anybody has ever gone to the links. It could be that people go and never allude to it again. But to me, it raises the suspicion that some people don't care what the Catholic Church really teaches.

They just want to sort through the fish they find in the Kingdom of Heaven's dragnet, seize some strange-looking specimen, and yell "Gotcha."

The sad part is the rcc has invested so much in promoting this false teaching they cannot back off of it now without losing all credibility. So the false teaching continues.

And yet continuing the demonstrably false teaching of Catholicism by comparing it to Scripture is not doing their credibility any good either.