[TomSmedley]

The demonic aura surrounding the cult of the BVM is the one thing that most convincingly bars my road back to Rome.

[Campion]

The demonic aura surrounding the cult of the BVM

... is a figment of your imagination. The devil hates and fears the Mother of God, and is happy to keep you in the same state.

[AnAmericanMother]

Oh, horse feathers.

I was an Episcopalian for years, not because I was worried about the Blessed Virgin - just because I was a sixth generation Piskie.

Anyhow, after being a Piskie all those years in an extremely liberal diocese, I have a very well developed antenna for the nasty stuff - the more radical priests and priestesses were bringing crazy practices and even people like that in off the street. I don't get that in our Catholic parish or in our archdiocese -- our tough old no-nonsense Irish rector wouldn't stand for it.

Any "demonic aura" you perceive is probably generated by well-meaning (I hope) but ignorant protestants who are opposed to what they think they "know" about the Church and Mary.

[murphE]

The demonic aura surrounding the cult of the BVM is the one thing that most convincingly bars my road back to Rome.

Now that's the most demonic statement I've read on this thread.

I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. Genesis 3:15

Who hates Our Lady more than Satan? Who hates her children more than he does? Who hates to see Our Lady get the honor that she is due more than he? How pleased he must be when people fail to love and honor her the way Our Lord does.

[NormB]

I see that you have attracted some flames for telling the truth about Mary Worship.

They lift the name of Mary up to the very same pinnacle where only God's name belongs.

To even state "The Most High" to describe her name is heretical, then they attack YOU as the demonic one. They are truly blind, and will not accept instruction from anyone but their own church.

That article is yet another horrific example of how they try to link the power of Christ to Mary as though the work of Christ as insufficient.

I think your statement is very well put and accurate. It is demonic. We should shrink back from idolatry and from anything that takes away from the glory that rightfully belongs to Christ.

But don't even think you can convince them of this. The powerful grip of this idolatry is almost insurmountable. I know first hand how hard it is for people, especially older people with a Catholic background to get freedom from the FEAR and anxiety of idol worship in Catholicism. Very much like breaking the grip of a cult like Mormonism. In fact the two operate very similarly.

[Salvation]

**demonic aura surrounding the cult of the BVM **

These words seem unbelievable to me. She carried the Christ child. How could anything demonic be connected with that?