esteem? Almost like they are a god....
this question is not meant to be rude or put catholics down...
2007-09-05 05:51:12 · 18 answers · asked by Kimbo 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Good question!!!
It does not stop with Mary and the Pope. The Catholic church have mutilated the bible over many years. The existence of St Peter is not a fact, his involvement with the early church is fiction, made up by the Bishop Councils to gain access to the power over mens souls. To keep the church at the forefront of faith ( usurping the myth of Jesus) the early followers faked miracles and told stories of miraculous healing brought about by the commoners body passing within the path of the Saints shadows. The church was based on Jesus being the Son of God, that the God, was, the, God, and that he did his bidding through the Son and the Holy Ghost, that his son sacrificed himself for the sins of the people, that he was taken by the Holy Ghost and was resurrected, that the power of the Logos of God the Son and The Holy Ghost was the one and all powerfull Creator and the true light that would guide you to heaven, that is what they taught, but at the same time they expanded the pwer to involve themselves. So why is it, that if there was just one God, (that is what the so called Jesus preached) and he was the all powerfull, that the church made all the disciples of Jesus ( the Apostles) Saints with God like powers to heal and perform miracles? the answer is to decieve the common muck into thinking that they were the chosen men of god and that the only way to heaven was through them. the church has now turned from God and its Mascott Jesus, to adding Saints and Popes and Emperors and Idolatry into the mix, this was done to parralel the Pagan rituals and move them toward domination by the church. The Church usurped the power of the Emperor Constantine through a lie! a forgery which the Vatican admits too! but will they relinquish this Palace and their Soveriegnty? NO! for they have spent 1700 yrs brainwashing their followers to believe that, they, and only they, hold the keys to the afterlife, that God has forsaken us and that he has handed over his power to the Saints and the Popes so that they can show you the way! WELL, as long as you can finance the trip, that is!
Catholicism is the seed of all Christianity, the rest are trees and branches, full of poisoned fruit.born of this seed. thus all religion is poison for the mind and prison for the conscience. this was the ultimate goal of the founding church, subjugation of Mankind and the elimination free thought.
2007-09-05 06:45:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I was raised as a Catholic and the Pope is the head of that church.
Mary, as the mother of Christ was revered by the 14th century church to such an extent that she replaced God. She was eventually demoted again, but in my own experience is still held in high regard by old Catholic ladies.
I personally have never given the Pope a moments thought, nor do I particularly place Mary on a pedestal - but then again I'm one of those Catholics you can meet anywhere at any time - lapsed.
2007-09-05 06:01:59 · answer #2 · answered by Nexus6 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Neither are regarded as God.
The object of Catholic Christianity is to subject yourself completely to the will of God. Mary is the perfect example of this. We believe that Christ's words to John from the cross were intended for all of us.
The Pope is our chief pastor and Christ's representative on Earth. Catholics have a great regard for his office, even though we've not necessarily held all the individual office-holders in quite such high esteem.
2007-09-05 06:00:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Pope is seen as the successor of Peter
Mary is honoured, not worship, because she is the mother of Jesus (God Incarnate)
Jesus & Mary are also held in high esteem in the Quaran
2007-09-05 06:04:04 · answer #4 · answered by Plato 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I have said this before and I guess I'll have to say it again, we do NOT worship her, we venerate and show her the proper respect she deserves. And do you not agree that she does indeed deserve it. She mothered the Son of God and went through enormous amounts of suffering which include giving her son over to tortured and killed. As for the Pope he is our spiritual leader, kind of like the President of the Catholic Church, again no worshipping there.
2007-09-05 05:57:25 · answer #5 · answered by Becky 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Cause you can hide things in the statues of Mary and the Pope is really old - almost to old - like acient scarey old
2007-09-05 11:03:49 · answer #6 · answered by Kalli 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the pope is like a prime minister of sorts to catholics.
2007-09-05 05:56:57 · answer #7 · answered by psychoman420 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Quite seriously, I really can't think of one reason, except for the fact that Mary was the mother of Jesus. But, we are not to worship her, and the Bible says to call " No man on earth Father."
2007-09-05 06:26:27 · answer #8 · answered by The Count 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
She is readily referred to as "holy," the "Mother of God" (official Catholic dogma in 431 A.D.), with prayers to her proclaimed in 600 A.D., and has been dubbed the "Co-Redemptrix," thereby making her an object of idolatrous worship (e.g., the Rosary has ten prayers to Mary for each two directed to God). In 1923, Pope Pius XI sanctioned Pope Benedict XV's (1914-1922) pronouncement that Mary suffered with Christ, and that with Him, she redeemed the human race. We need to spend our time and focus on God, not his creations. There is no "co-redemptrix". The Bible says "there is one mediator between God and Man, that is the Lord Jesus Christ." I, for one, follow the Bible... Not tradition.
2007-09-05 06:07:55 · answer #9 · answered by Michael 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
the pope is the living spirit of st peter reincarnated i was told and mary is the son of God so she is held in high esteem
2007-09-05 06:11:00 · answer #10 · answered by ~*tigger*~ ** 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋