Well!! Perhaps I should direct the question to you. If scripture and tradition are in harmony would you please show where the apostles taught the veneration and assumption of Mary?
Gee, I dunno.
Since the popes, reaching back to St. Peter, the FIRST vicar of Christ, and the ensuing Catholic encyclicals did all that...you MIGHT do better to go to:
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and ask your questions there. As much as you may ASSUME that we Catholics know ALL the theological questions that you Protestants might EVER come up with, I must admit, most humbly that I, for one, do NOT have all the answers to your questions.
I also may slip up and say "the" instead of "and" and you will, no doubt, accuse me of SOMETHING I said wrong.
SO, go to those websites and ask. They are fabulous! Most are Protestant converts to Catholicism (like former Baptist minister Steve Ray) and are SO knowledgeable. They often have priests there too.
They have an open question and answer Mondays-Thursdays if you want to call in for a question.
SOME days are for NON-Catholic call-in only! I listen to them when I am driving, which is every day.
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