RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
December 2, 2016 at 12:28 pm
(December 2, 2016 at 12:19 pm)Tazzycorn Wrote:(December 2, 2016 at 9:01 am)Ignorant Wrote: What do you think about Catholics holding that Mary, a woman, is the closest creature to God?
That would be the archangel Gabriel, a male, and all the other angels behind them. [1]
Mary was just a vessel to carry god while he gestated according to catholic theology. [2]
1) Angels don't have gender.
2) If that is the case, how do you understand this:
"In a wholly singular way she cooperated ... in the Savior's work of restoring supernatural life to souls. For this reason she is a mother to us in the order of grace." This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office ... continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation . . . . Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix." -CCC 968-969
