Do Catholics Worship Mary?

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If you ask why Roman Catholics worship Mary, the mother of Jesus, the Catholic apologists will tell you they don't worship

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Mary. When people ask me why do Catholics worship Mary, the first answer I have to say is we don't worship

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Mary. Why do Catholics worship Mary? Obviously the answer is we don't. Catechism of the

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Catholic Church in section 971 says it is an essential part of Christian worship to honor the

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Blessed Virgin Mary. And say what? Of Christian worship? Really? Now it doesn't mean we worship

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Mary. Absolutely not. Well here is the Pope kissing statues and portraits of Mary in reverence.

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Here he is offering incense to a likeness of Mary. Here he is bowing and praying before these likenesses.

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Catholic sources even say he prays to Mary. How are all of these things not worship?

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Here are people bowing to images of Mary and appearing to pray to them. Here is a massive parade on a religious feast day dedicated to Mary with a portrait of her in front of the procession.

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Here is another Marian parade and another and another. They will say this isn't worship, it's veneration.

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But really what's the difference? They ascribe to Mary divine characteristics like omnipresence, believing she can hear them from anywhere and grant requests.

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They claim she was born without sin when Jesus said no one is good but God alone. They give her divine names like Queen of Heaven.

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The only place in the Bible that title appears is in Jeremiah for an idol. In Exodus 23 through 5

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God says you shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth.