You missed my reply that I accept that I may be wrong about the Eucharist, so that doesn’t really apply to me.
As to the rest of your comments, they’re rather insulting…truth be told.
I’m hardly “the accuse of the Brethren” an appellation usually directed towards Satan. I consider Catholics to be my Brethren except for a few of their beliefs.
You’re right about the Ascension being the wrong term, it should’ve been The Assumption of Mary.
I stand by everything I said, and it wasn’t stated with rancor. He asked me what we “protested” and I told him a few things.
Ed
I think it was C.S. Lewis (a Belfast Protestant - but wise) who noted that even well-meaning Protestants never get anywhere by attacking the Blessed Virgin Mary, because Catholics respond just as any decent fellow would if you attacked his mother.
But here's our basic problem: sola scriptura. The Tradition of the Church predates the Bible; in fact, the Church compiled the Bible. When you rely solely upon the book that the Church compiled, without consulting the other teachings of the Church Fathers, you are deprived of the context. The existence of Church traditions in addition to the Bible was specifically noted by St. John and St. Paul in the Bible itself. Hence your lack of understanding of what the Church teaches.