I think that’s the primary reason Rome will never admit they’re wrong on Mary. Too much money and too many members they’d lose.
The other issue is, they’re likely afraid that if they admit they were wrong about one thing like that, then they’d have to admit they were wrong about other things as well.
And people would begin to question what else they were wrong on over the years.
Better to just plug their ears and sing *La, la, la, la, la,...... I can’t hear you.........*