that is between my Father and I.

my life not yours.
don't even pretend to tell me what to with it.

i prefer to remain ignorant of ignorant minds.

too much to read, faith and beliefs remain unmoved.
I'm stubborn as mule my good friend.

too much to read, faith and beliefs remain unmoved.
I'm stubborn as mule my good friend.

I know what you mean. Trust me times change. If it were not the case I would not be a catholic.

u r so wrong JB.
Do you respect me, honey?
do you think I'm a bad person?
if u respect me. trust me catholics never thought women were not humans.

DISCLAIMER 1: this post has the intention to clarify a couple of misconceptions with regard the Catholic Doctrine, so if it does not make sense to you or you just don't care STOP RIGHT HERE. Whereas if you would like to inform yourself about it please proceed.

DISCLAIMER 2: since these forums are very polarized I will try to be the clearest possible because it's not my intention to argue or debate in the future, but just to inform to whomever wants to know.
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Mostly the several christians denominations all over the place and the Church agree in pretty much everything til it gets to the Holy Virgin Mary and the saints.
This is simply because some of the other denomination in their struggle to get attendance to their churches they go through the Bible to find whatever passage which supports their agenda and twist it in a way that sounds convincing to the uneducated.
In this way these individuals come out with arguments such as catholics worship the Holy Virgin and the saints which is absolutely wrong from the very beginning of the statement.
The problem is that these people intentionally in order to fit their agenda confuse the words venerate, respect, and love with worship.
I love, respect, and venerate the Holy Virgin because she is the mother of God, but it's impossible even stupid to suggest that I worship her because she is not God. The only being that can be worshiped is God, and nobody else.
Now in order to be honest this idea of worshiping the Holy Mother of God and saints is supported by uneducated catholics which due to ignorance of their faith in fact make the Virgin and saints idols.
It's also the Church's failure because for too many years it sat back and let people grow with these misconceptions, and we have a huge population (specially in Latin America) which is way uneducated. Such uneducated population is a beautiful field for the "denominations" to work, and grow church attendance and therefore, their bank accounts.
Now why love, respect, and venerate this characters simply because they are good examples of the life that every christian should have because of the fidelity of these characters to the Lord's teachings.
JUST TO BE CLEAR ONCE AGAIN THEY ARE NOT GOD; THUS, THEY ARE NOT WORSHIPPED. WHOMEVER DOES SUCH THING IS MORE LOST THAN SANTA CLAUS IN JULY.
Another argument "denominations" use to confuse is the ignorant is: why do you pray to the Holy Virgin and the saints if you can go straight to God?
Very true, we can go straight to God. However, don't we read in this forum a lot of threads asking for prayers for somebody else. Whomever ask for another person to pray for him or her is asking intercession which is absolutely right.
Since we ask others to pray for us or help us in prayer, and since we (catholics) consider the Holy MOther of God and the saints alive in spirit and contemplating God's face due to their holliness we believe they can pray for us or help us in our prayer.
Exactly, the same thing a lot of people here do when they make a thread asking for prayers.

TLW