Mark: Do you mean the Catholic Church?
Actually, I think she had it exactly right. The catholic church, that is the church of all believers, knows as a whole that only Christ could keep the Law perfectly. It is a subset of the catholic church, that subset being the Catholic Church, that denies this truth by proclaiming Mary as equal to Christ in that she was sinless and kept the Law perfectly.
It is a subset of the Catholic Church, that subset being the Roman Catholic/Vatican associated et al Church, that denies this truth by proclaiming Mary as equal to Christ in that she was sinless and kept the Law perfectly.
INDEED.
Note to FK: if either of the two deserves the Capitalization, it is the true UNIVERSAL (CATHOLIC) CHURCH OF JESUS THE CHRIST MADE UP OF ALL BELIEVERS.
Actually the Catholic church teaches only Christ could keep the whole law , then they go off and supersede their own doctrine with the sinlessness of Mary
578 Jesus, Israel's Messiah and therefore the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, was to fulfill the Law by keeping it in its all embracing detail - according to his own words, down to "the least of these commandments".330 He is in fact the only one who could keep it perfectly.331 On their own admission the Jews were never able to observe the Law in its entirety without violating the least of its precepts.332 This is why every year on the Day of Atonement the children of Israel ask God's forgiveness for their transgressions of the Law. The Law indeed makes up one inseparable whole, and St. James recalls, "Whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it."333