Catholic and Protestant Attitudes Towards Prayer to Mary - a podcast by Daniel Dal Monte

In this podcast, I discuss differing attitudes towards prayer to Mary in Catholic and Protestant theology. Protestants view the Catholic Church as falsely usurping spiritual authority, and adulterating Christian faith with human traditions. Protestants demand that prayer only go to God, and see prayer to Mary as blasphemous. However, the idea that Mary, in Heaven, is able to be aware of many prayers at once, in the thoughts of believers, is consistent with the idea that Heaven involves a completely different experience of space-time than what we have on earth. It is also not the case that we only believe what is explicitly claimed in Scripture. We have to use our reason, and rely on the apostolic authority Jesus established (He did not establish a Bible, but appointed apostles to tell the world the good news) to glean truths from Scripture that we can apply to issues they do not explicitly address. The Bible is a necessary source of truth, insofar as we cannot contradict it, but not sufficient, and so we can believe ideas that it is does not positively affirm. The fact that saints are depicted as praying before the Lamb in the beatific vision of Revelations 5:8 creates a major problem from Protestant interpretations. Here is the link to a great article: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/davearmstrong/2020/09/can-mary-hear-simultaneous-prayers-of-millions.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Catholic+For+All+Seasons&utm_content=45

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