Catholic Mary Worship Turns Mary Into a Goddess

This is an excerpt from an article written by a former nun who left the Catholic church after checking its many extrabiblical sacraments and teachings against the irrefutable, unchanging Word of God. Her entire fascinating and educational article can be read at: http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Roman%20Catholicism/mary_worship_a_study.htm where she talks at length about Catholic Mary worship (Mariology), its origins, and how it is linked with Wiccan goddess traditions, and other ecumentical ideals.

Goddess worship has infiltrated main-line Christian denominations. In November 1993, a Re‑Imagining Conference was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Most of the 2,000 participants were women. This ecumenical church conference was sponsored by and attended by members of over a dozen denominations, including Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Catholics, Lutherans and Methodists. They prayed to Sophia, the goddess of Wisdom, calling her their Creator. They did rituals for this goddess, including a communion service where bread and wine were replaced by milk and honey. They openly rejected the doctrines of the incarnation and the atonement. This conference was repeated in 1996, 1998 and 2000. [18] An on‑line report (with photographs) is available at

http://www.layman.org/layman/news/reimagining‑revival.htm

There are Wiccan web sites with web pages devoted to individual goddesses. The Virgin Mary is included among the goddesses of the following web sites: The Spiral Goddess Grove, The White Moon, and Goddess 2000. They consider Mary to be the Divine Feminine and say that for centuries, many people have blended their ancient goddesses with Mary. [19]