Category: Marian Dogmas

Luke 11:28 is a com­mon anti-Mar­i­an proof­text, and our old friend Tur­ret­inFan — known on this blog as Mr. X — revives it in a recent blog post from July. In Luke’s gospel, a woman approach­es Christ and says, “Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked.” Jesus replies, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” The anti-Mar­i­an apol­o­gist claims that, by these words, Jesus rejects Mar­i­an ven­er­a­tion. Accord­ing to Mr. X, “blessed is the womb that bore thee” is “the ear­li­est record we have of some­thing approach[ing] Mar­i­an ven­er­a­tion.”

In a recent post, Steve “Pur­ple” Hays of Fail­ablogue (he calls it Tri­ablogue) tries to pit those wicked “lay Catholic pop apol­o­gists” against “their reli­gious supe­ri­ors” in the USCCB. The USCCB says the woman clothed with the sun is the Church, and Hays will side wth the bish­ops. That’s progress. Per­haps, then, he’ll also side with the bish­op of Rome. Pius X, Pius XII, Paul VI, and John Paul II have said the woman clothed with the sun is also Mary. And before you cry, “Con­tra­dic­tion!” Hay­dock­’s Com­men­tary of 1859 says the woman clothed with the sun is Israel, the Church, and Mary.