Yup. I have known only a few people who said they had never doubted their faith.
And I didn’t believe them. Mary was as human and subject to human frailty as anyone else.
Spiritual merit is acquired by overcoming temptation, not by being born with some inherent resistance to it.
IMO
The New Testament records the temptation of Christ by the devil in the desert. That is well known.
The New Testament also records the Annunciation by Gabriel to Mary that she will bear the Savior; nowhere is there a mention of devil to counter Gabriel at the time of the Annunciation. If there was any time for Satan to tempt Mary, that was the time, right?
Finally, Genesis tells us:
“I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.”
Francis is practicing YOPIOS.
Of the three or so passages describing a direct interface between Jesus Christ and Mary, in each one, it strongly appears Mary is not in fellowship with God, but is being tacitly directed by the Son of God for her improper thinking.
In each case, she doesn’t appear to heed His strong suggestions.
IMHO, if Scripture was to record how a believer is to respond to an out of fellowship brethern in senior authority in a divine institution, His behavior with Mary provides us with outstanding examples of how such people are to be treated.
I’ve also noticed how those who worship Mary, tend to place her position as more sanctified than Christ as the object of their devotion, i.e., they also are out of fellowship.