[Uncle Chip]

You may still think that our veneration of Mary and the saints is exaggerated and misplaced but it is hardly the same as the worship we give to God, and to God alone.

And when children in Catholic schools crown statues of Mary as Queen of Heaven this May in festivals all over the world, what should we, they, and you call that????

[Petrosius]

And when children in Catholic schools crown statues of Mary as Queen of Heaven this May in festivals all over the world, what should we, they, and you call that????

I would call it an expression of love for our blessed Mother. No one--I say again no one--is claiming that she is equal to God, she is the Queen Mother, i.e. the mother of the King, Jesus Christ. I would not think that you would object to us loving Mary, whom our Lord loves so very much. Is it wrong that we should express publicly our love for her? Perhaps to your sensibilities it is over the top, but take it for what it is and do not give it a meaning beyond what is our intention. Criticize what to you are our excesses but to insist that we are worshipping Mary as a god or attributing to her divine attributes when you have been repeatedly told that we do not is an exaggeration of your own and a slander against what we believe.

[Marysecretary]

The local Syracuse paper had a huge page advertising Mary as Mother for Mother’s Day. All kinds of interesting stuff in that one. Barf.