Asking her to pray for us is VERY DIFFERENT than praying to her. Haven't you ever asked anyone to pray for you?
There are catholics and some catholic churches who believe she can forgive sins.
ABSOLUTELY UNTRUE!
Catholics also believe she a mere mortal woman has never sinned.
Yes she was mortal, just as we are. And yes she was conceived free from sin. Do YOU not believe it is possible for God to conceive someone free from sin?
Of course in a religion where tradition overrules the very Word of God, these heresies are bound to happen.
Name ONE tradition that overrules Scripture. And who are you to define heresy? The Lord gave Peter and through him the Church the authority to "bind and loose" sin and the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven.
As for the rest of what you wrote, I will pray that you are one day lead to the Church that our Lord founded and not some denomination founded by a man sometime after the early 16th Century.
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I have met catholics who pray to her. Have you not? Strange it is very common.?? They ask her for all sorts of things, blessings, in catholic churches too...hmmm.??? How can you not aware of this?
I am sorry but I do not have the time to do the research for you. But if you will do some searching you will find catholic churches in South America and elsewhere that teach Mary can forgive sins and they ask her to forgive there sins. I have seen a claim of her having been put on the cross in Jesus' place in some village churches in Mexico and another Central American country [don't remember which country now].
Mary was not conceived free from sin. That would make God a liar. For He states that all have sinned and fallen short of sin. You are letting tradition overrule the Word of God here.
There are many RCC traditions that overrule the word of God. One above. Purgatory. Men of God not being able to marry. The Pope replacing Jesus as head of church....the list is long.
I already belong to Jesus Christ and nothing shall separate me from him. I will never give that up to join some religion.