[Mad Dawg]

Who is the neck? Is there an answer in Catholic teachings?

Heck no. Nothing official. A lot of loose talk by less than verbally gifted teachers. The best answer was the everything not head is body.

Now ask me, who is the PAIN in the neck ...

[smvoice]

OK, here's something I found.

The Bible describes the Church in terms of a body. Christ is the "head of the body, the church" (Col 1:18). All "are members of His body" (Eph. 5:30). This metaphor speaks of the immediate and unimpeded union of every believer with Christ. It leaves no room for the mediation of Mary as taught by the Roman Catholic Church.

WHile the Church agrees that the faithful are the body of Christ and that He is their head, it nevertheless adds that Mary is--

...the connecting portion the function of which is to join the body to the head and to transmit to the body the influences and volitions of the head- We mean the neck. Yes, says St. Bernardine of Sienna, "she is the neck of Our Head, by which He communicates to His mystical body all spiritual gifts. "-Ad Diem

I just see this as yet another place Mary is insinuated into Christ. Being the neck between the body and the head.

Does that make sense to you?