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Okay, before I banish myself from the thread for 12 hours, do me a kindness, please: Find a text (say from the Catechism) where we unequivocally and authoritatively (in the sense of an authority RCs would accept), in clear indisputable language say that Jesus is not the Great High Priest, but his mother is, and that her motherhood overshadows his work on the cross.

You see, we don't believe either of those things. I'd guess you think that they are a logical implication of what we do believe. But we differ from you on that.

So if you can't find such a text, would you instead explain to me what you hope to accomplish by accusing us of believing things we don't believe.

Again, this seems to be an obsession among some Protestants. They INSIST that we believe something or do something so very dreadful that it justifies all sorts of rhetorical excesses and bandwidth expenditures. I, personally, try not to make such claims in an argumentative way about Protestants, and I don't see what the good of such things is.

Of course, it leads me to consider that such things are sad to make us angry, to cause pain. But I consider that only tentatively. I don't see why, but I don't see why people would engage in this stuff. It's bad enough to go to a fat person and call him "Fatty." It's incomprehensible to go to a skinny person and call him "Fatty." All that will be conveyed is contempt. No content, nothing discussable will come across. I don't get it.