[mgist]

Sadly, the RCC carries its teachings into an idolatrous worship/veneration/glorification/prayers to a woman who was exactly as fallen as you or me, and who was saved exactly the same way you and I are saved -- by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.

That is your sad interpretation of Mary. NO WHERE, in Catholic teaching does it say we are saved through Mary. To insinuate otherwise is slander. The fact that we don't think of her like some meaningless Greek statue, doesn't mean that we place her above God. Obviously our love of God is a little too passionate for your tastes, that doesn't give you the right to spread calumnious lies against us.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

The words of the RCC catechism have been posted numerous times on this thread. Go back and read them. They are damnable lies.

No king but Christ. No redeemer but Christ. No sacrifice by Christ.

[Petronski]

Look at the very first paragraph of the CCC:

"FATHER, . . . this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent."1 "God our Savior desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth."2 "There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved"3 - than the name of JESUS.

Not only a stirring rebuke of Cauvin's dark gospel of predestination, but also the direct statement: "There is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved"3 - than the name of JESUS.