[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I think a respectable argument could be made that Mary worship is nothing but a continuation of the pagan “Great Mother.”

[avenir]

At a very basic level some Catholics have a folksy, Sicilian/Latin Mamma fixation. How do you get to Papa? By going through Mamma.

I’ve heard this very reasoning hear on FR. They were not joking. Such reasoning is sensual, demonic, not from God.

[MHGinTN]

Looking through ‘Church History’ it does not appear to have started out that way. It was definitely not worship of the Mother of Jesus in the infancy of the forming Catholic Church. It has morphed into that by our epoch and for devout Catholics to deny that is a sign, in my honest opinion, that they are not yet born from above.