Why I Am Not a Catholic, Part 2: Mary, the Saints and the One Mediator

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This is Part 2 of the series “Why I Am Not a Catholic.” Part 1 looked at authority, the papacy, the Mass and justification.

Picture a mother in a quiet church, a candle lit before a statue of Mary, praying for her son. Nobody watching her would call it anything but sincere. And nobody who loves Jesus wants to speak against the woman who carried Him. That is exactly why this part is the hardest to say.

But the question is not whether Mary matters. She does. The question is whom we pray through, and who stands between us and God. That is a question about Christ, and it decides where your…