Truth or Sensationalism

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This showed up in my email today. Does anyone know anything about this website and whether there is any truth to this article?
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The website looks like some kind of kooky evangelical site, based on the other articles (several of them attacks on the Catholic Church). I would send this email to your spam folder…
 
They can’t even spell the word “deity” correctly and you’re asking if there’s truth to it?

It’s some crazy evangelical spam. Send it to your spam folder where it belongs.
 
Well there’s truth in it in that they quoted the Church Fathers and the Pope showing that Mary has always been venerated with the highest possible praise which can be given to a creature. But it’s a pretty typical Protestant manner of argument, assuming that all this means we somehow worship Mary and put her in the place of Jesus Christ.

From one of those quotes, from Pope Pius XI:
“Has not Jesus placed in your hands all the treasures of His grace and mercy?”
I’m no philosopher, but I think the author of this article could benefit from some basic philosophy. If Jesus who is God put in Mary’s hand all the treasures of grace and mercy (hence Mediatrix of All Graces), then it is self-evident the grace and mercy did not originate in her (that is, she is not the Creator) and therefore Jesus is infinitely greater than her, while she is vastly greater than every creature.

As I see it, Mary is so glorious, we with our finite minds would not be able to discern the difference between her glory and God’s infinite glory if we somehow saw it, though thanks to revelation through the Church we know God’s glory is actually infinite and hers finite. Maybe these people just need a true Church or something, I don’t know. But understanding what the Catholics actually believes and means when she speaks about Mary is not necessarily interesting to them.
 
read their “about us” statement

the bold is mine, they seem to be a bible only group and from the articles obviously anti-catholic
We believe that there is only one way to establish truth, and it is not by taking for granted what we tell you or what your most trusted friend tells you or even what your Pastor teaches. God’s children need to be like the Berean Christians who “ received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true ” Acts 17:11. This is the only way to get back to the Biblically based belief system of the early Church and put aside the traditions that have become accepted doctrines over the centuries, and obscured the original teachings and examples of Jesus and the Apostles.
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One look at their page where they’re spazzing out over the Pope venerating the statue at Fatima as being him bowing down to an idol or some such rot, and I changed the channel without reading any of their garbage.

Mary-haters are only hurting themselves.
 
My thought in reading it was that if Pope Francis had really made such a declaration, the fact that he had spoken Ex Cathedra would have been enough to put it on the National News along with CNN, etc al.

I tried Googling and couldn’t find this “big reveal” anywhere other than on their website.

Thanks for confirming my suspicions.
 
This “fake news” has been making the rounds of evangelical Christianity since I have returned to the Catholic Church 22 years ago. When I reverted an evangelical friend told me the same thing.

It’s best to ignore it and not feed the troll. My experience has been that it is no good arguing with such people. Just be polite and say “that would be interesting if it were true” and leave it at that.

If they persist in drawing attention to the Church’s mariology, shrug and say “no Mary, no Jesus”.
 
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