The Spirit of Mary in the
Roman Catholic Church

Is it really MARY, or some other spirit?

By Ken Raggio

When Turkish gunman Ali Agca attempted to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, the Pope’s first whispered cry was heard to be, "Mary, my mother...!" before losing consciousness.

According to author Tad Szulc in his book, "Pope John Paul II - The Biography", the pope believes that his life was saved as a "real miracle" by the Virgin of Fatima, whose feast day is May 13 (the date of his assassination attempt).

John Paul II went to her shrine in Fatima, Portugal on the first anniversary of Agca’s attack to thank the Virgin for saving him and to place the bullet that had struck him on her altar.

Mariology is one of the cardinal doctrines of the Catholic Church. It asserts such premises pertaining to Mary -- the Immaculate Conception, Mother of God, and Veneration -- to be salvific doctrines.

Mary is held to be the eschatological fulfillment of the Church. That means that the Church began with Mary. She was the first embodiment of the church.

If that is so, then the doctrine of the New Birth is moot. If Mary was the church before Calvary, then there is a church that is not born again -- a notion we cannot accept.

The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is not as it sounds. Where most outsiders presume that the Immaculate Conception refers to Mary’s virgin status at the time of Jesus’ conception, that it NOT what it refers to. Instead, it teaches that Mary HERSELF was born immaculately -- without sin.

Again, we cannot concur, because we find Mary among the 120 believers praying in the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost. The Holy Ghost Baptism they all experienced that day, according to Peter’s exhortation in Acts 2:38 would have had to been preceded by repentance. If Mary was among those who repented, she must have had sin.

Then, the concept of the Mother of God presents a problem. Whose mother was she? God’s, or the Son of God’s? "When the fulness of time came, Mary brought forth her firstborn son and laid him in a manger." Jesus was certainly God, but God wasn’t born that day -- a man in whom God dwelt was born. There is a big difference. Mary was only a vessel producing a vessel.

Finally, the Veneration doctrine includes not only the "veneration", or "highly honoring" of Mary, but is preliminary to her declared Sainthood. Sainthood, among other things, is the esteeming of some purportedly great Christian to the office of Saint, and subsequently holding him or her to be a heavenly intercessor, or one to PRAY to.

This is seriously wrong. To begin with, no scriptures ever teach that any deceased saint could be communicated with after death. In fact, the scriptures declare that the procedure is accurately "ashes to ashes and dust to dust", and "the spirit returns to God who gave it".

Jesus taught, in his story of the rich man and Lazarus, that once a person dies, they are taken either to a place of torment (if they were wicked) or a place of rest (if they were righteous). Between those two destinations, there is a great gulf fixed. When the wicked rich man called to God from hell, asking that someone be sent from there to his brothers, warning them of the perils of hell, he was told that would not be possible.

The ONLY similar reference in the Bible was when the witch of Endor posed as being able to raise the Prophet Samuel from the dead. To be sure, she only raised a "familiar spirit" of Samuel’s. That was her source to the nether world - familiar spirits (demons). We must similarly conclude that when anyone claims to be able to communicate with the dead, they are only communicating with "familiar spirits", or demons!

By that reasoning, we must deduct that any prayer to the Virgin Mary could only be heard by God Himself or by a familiar spirit demon. Mary, beyond the grave, was and is NOT ABLE to communicate with the living. She is awaiting the resurrection of the dead, for the putting on of a new body, and appearing before Jesus Christ at His coming.

ANYONE Posing as Mary today would HAVE TO BE AN IMPOSTER SPIRIT a powerful and influential devil that no Christian in their right mind would want to have ANY dealings with!

How can it NOT be an abomination to pray to the devil??

In a book called, ‘The Thunder of Justice’ written by Ted and Maureen Flynn, and forwarded by prominent Vatican insider Malachi Martin, Mary predicts profound changes on the world scene imminently.

‘Our Lady’ is quoted as saying prophetically (in the very opening chapter), "A chastisement worse than the flood is about to come upon this poor and perverted humanity. FIRE will descend from Heaven and this will be a sign that the justice of God has as of now fixed the hour of His great manifestation." THEY think this is Mary speaking. Actually, it is a DEMON!

These words of "Mary" recall Revelation 13:13-14, which refers to the "False Prophet" of the apocalypse: "and he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh FIRE come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast..."

First, the Fire, then the Antichrist?

The surrounding verses describe the most powerful religious leader in the world performing a miracle that is presently being predicted by the "Blessed Virgin" herself!

The Pope prays daily to the "Blessed Virgin," and he is the principal defender of her role in reconciling the world to God. He has said that Jesus Christ is the MEDIATOR between God and Mary!

Might he be the one who also fulfills the prophecy of verse 15, by "giving life to the image of the beast"? The Pope is obviously praying to the devil when he communicates with Mary!

Might the Pope actually introduce a man of world power whose very image is the exact opposite of the man Jesus who was the "image" of the invisible God? Antichrist!

The "image" of the antichrist would logically be the man who is introduced to the world by this false prophet.

These facts alone dictate that no one who wants to be saved should remain in the Roman Catholic church.

"And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double." Revelation 18:4-6 (KJV)