Expert: Rev. Robert Woods - 3/28/2008

Question
Rev. Woods,

Respectfully sir comments you made regarding Catholics' being instructed that they must pray to Mary, dead saints or through ministers to get to God is inaccurate.  

Please see the information at this link which may clarify some things for you.

http://www.americancatholic.org/e-ws/FriarJack/fj102202.asp

Answer
Blessings

Your link does not work.

However, you cannot deny that catholics are often told after confession to say the "rosary"    ANY prayer made to ANYONE or ANYTHING other than the Trinity is idolatry and is wrong.  Plain and Simple.

You aren't going to convince me otherwise.  I have to many Catholics who were saved and left the Idolatry of the Catholic church.  Having said that, I know many Catholics who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and see that bowing down to an idol of Mary is wrong.  Mary was a great woman, a blessed woman, but she cannot hear our prayers.  In fact, I believe she would be appalled that so much adoration has been taken from her Son and given to her.

We obviously are going to disagree.  

May the Lord bless you Richly.