Another unanswered question:
‘Let’s take the prayer of Prayer of Pope Pius XII.”
Why? is Pope Pius XII the mind reader? Or are you? You claim that those in Russia today “...are directly putting Mary in place of Jesus or the Holy Spirit.”
How do you know that? What makes you the expert on what others think? Are you trying to claim to be able to judge others?
I could do a whole thread about the unanswered questions by protestants here.
They are like hamsters in their cage running on the wheel, going endlessly round and round, going nowhere off the mindless cycle of what they have learned from others.
Not a one of them has an original thought or has come to their beliefs simply by reading Scripture under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
What they know they have learned from someone else who had all the accompanying Scripture needed to wrest from it “support” for their interpretation.
Google nearly anything said here by a protestant and it will come up nearly verbatim under a few ministries which seem to have lots of time to convince others the Catholic and now I guess, the Orthodox Church is not just heretical, but satanic as well.
They can accept that the Holy Spirit guided the Church when she defined the NT and preserved it, but then seem to believe that the very same Holy Spirit abandoned the faithful to be led into death by that very same Church, by allowing it to be THE Christian Church for over 1500 years.
Early Christians had no Scripture to read for themselves, yet they were to rely SOLELY on Scripture for their salvation. How was that even possible?
They will not admit that the first Christians had no NT Scripture to read, trusting in those writings of the Apostles and those they taught, to be read to them when they met to break bread. They will not admit that subsequent generations of Christians also did not have Scripture to read for themselves.
The Bible is our blueprint, a guidepost, which is a great and glorious gift that leads us to accept Christ and His Church, but it does not, by its very own admission, hold everything that is truth within the written word. It merely says of itself that everything in it is profitable, not that it contains the entire deposit of truth and faith.