Catholics instinctively turn to mary and not her Son. Never ceases to amaze me.
It is NOT instinct; but a mantra that is pounded into their brains over and over and over again that controls their actions.
Any heathen; away from the teachings of this world; who happens upon the Good Book (that Rome gave us); and READS it - will NOT come away with Mary being any more than yet another link in the chain that brought Christ to inhabit a body of flesh.