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Catholics don't pray to Mary, it's called an "intersession"… They ask Mary to plead on their behalf to the big man…
IMHO, one should just pray VFR direct to the big man, the whole intercession thing always seemed screwy.
That said, Mary per the Catholic churches own history is fiction (at least in the context of being the Virgin mother of God) yet they made her Dogma…
Also, the Bible is crafted from stories that were contained w/in the same pages of Greek Mythology… This was revealed when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered and missing specific pages/items. I have no idea what clued them in but they immediately pointed the finger at the Catholic Church and they blushed and admitted it was them.
Square that round peg; either both are myth or both are true.
Sauce, Nicene/Trent Council records, respectively…
The original Catholic faith was in fact "crafted" to be "universal" because the original "designers" claimed they felt their mortal souls were in peril if they didn't act to spread the word of Christ.
Fun fact, ISLAM was a major contributor to the crafting of Catholicism per Nicene/Trent…
I don't remember which one was which, I was home schooled, my mother made me read both the Nicene and Trent documents (because they had been released as books), along w/the Bible, the Dictionary (<<<not kidding) and I took Latin once upon a time.
I'm old now, I remember things, I'm always right but sauce is hard to come by as my mother has since passed and those books are MIA.