What do Catholics believe?

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I am not going to argue with you. perhaps you are a different catholic, but i grew up in a predominantly catholic country, and i am sorry, when you pray to someone, you are worshiping them, and if i remember correctly, hail mary is in no way directed towards God, but mary. that is one of the ways i believe catholics have a worship of mary included in their religion.

If you listen to the Hail Mary, you will notice it is a plea for her to pray for us.

"Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death". It is asking Mary for nothing other than prayers. What comes before that is found in the bible.

 

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maybe the fact that the books written by catholics are biased.

If what the catholics believe is truly in the bible, then she should ONLY have to read the bible.

Catholics don't believe in sola scriptura, that's a man-made, unbiblical belief created within the last 500 years.

We go by all apostolic teaching, both what is in the bible and what was taught to the Church by the apostles and revealed to the Church by God.

 

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If you want to know what Catholics actually believe-
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/ccc_cont.html

www.catholic.com (on the left sidebar) offers explanations and insights into what we believe.

I'll see if I can type up a summary of what we believe tomorrow