[Always Right]

The Bible itself says that it does not contain everything that Jesus did so how senseless is it to use it as the sole source to learn about his Mother? Yeah, pretty silly really.

I was taking issue with this statement and putting it in perspective:

To be ignorant of the Scripture is not to know Christ,” said St. Jerome.[2] Could we develop this statement further and conclude: To be ignorant of the Scripture is not to know Mary, the Mother of Christ?

If you are going to equate knowing Mary to knowing Christ, I think you are missing the point of Scripture. The Catholic obsession with Mary seems out of whack, as illustrated by that above statement.

[FormerLib]

To be ignorant of the Scripture is not to know Mary...

I'll agree with you that this sentence, when take literally, doesn't make much sense. Mary was the best example of obedience to Christ, however, and not knowing of her (particularly if a willful ignorance is employer) seem antithetical to Christianity.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Amen.

"And it came to pass, as he (Jesus) spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.

But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it." -- Luke 11:27-28

[x_plus_one]

If you are going to equate knowing Mary to knowing Christ, I think you are missing the point of Scripture.

None of my thousnds of catholic cohorts believe this either.

The Catholic obsession with Mary seems out of whack, as illustrated by that above statement.

There is no obsession better than respect and reverence.