“Why do people say that Catholics believe that Mary is our savior, when NO Catholic has ever believed that?”
It’s from the Catechism. However if Christ is the one being accepted as Savior then that’s refreshing to hear.
Catechism 491:
“Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, “full of grace” through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854:
The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.”
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a3p2.htm
Better read that again......the catechism teaches that Jesus is the Savior of the human race, not Mary.
But something tells me you knew that already, right?
Are you telling me that you interpret the above paragraph as saying that Mary is the "Savior of the human race."