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Which Catholic doctrine teaches that Mary is God (please post the link)?

From the Catechism of the Catholic church....

http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a9p6.htm

969 “This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation .... Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix.”510

Names of God from the Bible. Compare them to the names given to Mary in the above prayer.

Jesus

Hope (our) - 1 Timothy 1:1

Counselor - Isaiah 9:6

Advocate - 1 John 2:1

Mediator - 1 Timothy 2:5, Hebrews 9:15, Hebrews 12:24

Holy Spirit

Comforter - John 14:26

Helper – John 14:16

This is worship of Mary if ever there was.....Attributing to her the attributes of God is idolatry.

It is a fact that Mary is the mother of God.

WRONG! Mary is the mother of JESUS, as told us by the Holy Spirit in the Scripture HE inspired.

God has no mother. He is eternal. Calling Mary the *mother of God* makes HER above God and God a created being.

WRONG! Mary is the mother of JESUS, as told us by the Holy Spirit in the Scripture HE inspired.

God has no mother. He is eternal. Calling Mary the *mother of God* makes HER above God and God a created being.

We call Mary the "Mother of God" because that's exactly what she is. A woman is a man’s mother either if she carried him in her womb or if she was the woman contributing half of his genetic matter or both. Mary was the mother of Jesus in both of these senses; because she not only carried Jesus in her womb but also supplied all of the genetic matter for his human body, since it was through her—not Joseph—that Jesus "was descended from David according to the flesh" (Rom. 1:3).

Since his Incarnation Jesus has had two natures, divine and human. These natures are completely united (meaning he is completely God and completely human). The technical word for this is the hypostatic union.

Although Jesus has two natures, he is only one Person--God--the Second Person of the Trinity. For this reason Jesus is properly called the "God-Man." (By the term nature we mean what Jesus is; by the term Person we mean who he is.)

Since the Son born to Mary is a single Person (and that Person is God) with two natures, Mary can rightly be called the Mother of God. The Person she's the mother of is God--he's not, strictly and philosophically speaking, a human person, as we are.

This doesn't mean that Mary existed before God (which is an impossibility). She is a human person with a human nature. She existed before Jesus' human nature was created.

Here's another way to look at it. A woman can't be the mother merely of a nature. She can only be the mother of a person who possesses a nature. When a child is conceived he is a person, not just a nature.

The same is true of Jesus, or else he would be two persons in addition to having two natures. Since Mary is the mother not of Jesus' human nature but of Jesus the God-Man, a divine Person, she is rightly called the Mother of God.