[bdeaner]

Thanks for the explanation, but I am aware of the position of the the Catholic Church on these issues. I was posting more as a reflection on the nature of those positions, and not just regarding Catholic teachings.

Ok, that's fine -- I assumed as much. But I responded with the statement on Catholic teaching for the benefit of readers who might assume you were representing a Catholic perspective. There is already a lot of misconceptions about Catholic teaching on Mary.

[Petronski]

There is already a lot of misconceptions about Catholic teaching on Mary.

Many of them cultivated intentionally, by the enemies of the Church.

[Talisker]

There is already a lot of misconceptions about Catholic teaching on Mary.

That's why I posted what I did. There are tens of millions of Catholics with a very strong, even fundamental, belief in Mary's divinity. And I have often wondered if this tendency was not derived from some level of fundamental spiritual understanding outside of Catholic, or even Christian, teachings. For it does not seem to be a phenomenon that is going away, but rather growing all over the world.