Some do, and Some don't. I can see you do not know much about Catholicism. I have been watching a growing false doctrine within Catholicism for DECADES that will eventually cause a Church Split.
For your information, I call the one's that Worship Mary, "CATHOLIC-CATHOLICS."
And the ones that Worship the Holy Trinity, "CHRISTIAN-CATHOLICS."
There has been a growing movement in the Catholic Church that says, we pray to Mary, because GOD is TOO busy with the major Prayer requests, so HE depends on Mary to answer the Little Prayer requests. And they actually believe that Mary will answer those Prayer requests.
I asked a Born Again PRIEST, that was a friend of mine, about that. He said, "I know that some do think Mary answers prayer too, but that is not why we are taught to pray to Mary in the Seminary." He said, "Tell me, do you believe that GOD honors that prayer, when you ask a Christian Brother or Sister to Pray for you?" I said, YES. He said, "Now can you quote Chapter and Verse where it says to STOP asking them to pray for you, when that Brother of Sister in Christ Dies ?" He said, after I was silent for awhile, "Yes, we believe it is just a form of Intercessory Prayer, and nothing more." Then he went on to say, "I guess we have done a very Poor job of teaching that from the Pulpit, probably because we thought it was better for them to come to the Church for the Wrong Reason, than not to come at all." I THOUGHT, . . . . and better for the Collection Plate.
YES there are BORN AGAIN CATHOLICS that can put to shame most Protestants, when it comes to LOVING THE BRETHREN. Two of them that I have MET are Catholic Priests, and possibly a third one, though I did not know him long enough to determine what kind of Fruit he produced. I asked them both, why do you remain in the Catholic Church. They both gave me almost identical answers. "Because I am where CHRIST needs me the Most." I thought about that, and realized that I would have to give the same answer about my being in the Prison Ministry as a Volunteer Protestant Chaplain. In fact, I remember praying one day when I was a Young Christian, "LORD, give me a ministry One Yard From Hell." Yes, I heard that somewhere, but I do not remember where; BUT I MEANT IT WITH MY WHOLE BEING. YES, HE was faithful to honor that Prayer, in the highest level security Prison in California.
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