I’m relating to you my experience in what I know having been raised as a Catholics and living and working with Catholics.
If you don’t like that, that’s not my problem, but it’s not lies, and it’s not *hate* (the last resort of liberal argument). It’s stating the facts that exist in other parts of Catholicism besides the one you inhabit.
Your experience as a convert is not the experience of a cradle Catholic. It wouldn’t surprise me at all that someone talking to a potential convert downplayed the Catholic worship of Mary.
I have also lived and worked with Catholics. No one downplayed anything, when I was in RCIA. As I stated, my personal sponsor was the one who taught me about the Blessed Mother.
I didn’t say it was your problem, I said I didn’t believe any of you (plural) (sect unspecified) protestants on anything regarding the Catholic Church.
And by the way, I don’t believe you are a cradle Catholic. I don’t mind being wrong, but there is nothing about your posts that actually supports your statement.
I have a distant relative who married an RC whose priest spent many hours trying to get this relative to convert.
For nearly every question this man asked, the priest said something to the effect that "most of us don't really believe such-and-such. We're free to think for ourselves."
Lol. Yean, right. Think for yourselves right up until you join the papacy. And them BOOM! It's our way or the highway.
As an aside, my relative ended up leaving Rome and now the happy couple are both Protestant.
And they think for themselves.