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To: BubbaBasher
How about the Catholic Church?

Doubt it, but your slur is noted. Proably they are getting mixed up about the Trinity. Catholics are usually accused by the bornagains of worshipping Mary, not Joseph as well (unless this is a new one).

11 posted on 03/25/2009 10:50:35 AM PDT by Hacksaw
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To: Hacksaw
Catholics are usually accused by the bornagains of worshipping Mary

Note the equating of "veneration" with "worship" by Cardinal Antonio Bacci, in his devotional material. Although "worship" is further parsed into dulia and latria (veneration vs adoration), Cardinal Bacci specifically refers to the act of bowing to, and the act of praying to saints as worship...

The worship of the Saints is an act of veneration (dulia), not of adoration (latria), which can be given only to God. It is wrong to imagine, as many Protestants do, that by praying to and venerating the Saints we subtract something from the homage we owe to God...
From the thread The Veneration and Imitation of the Saints
14 posted on 03/25/2009 11:13:03 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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