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There is no hidden agenda...you can pick up a Catholic Catechism in any major bookstore and read about her. Also, the pope is not a middle man --we have Church leaders.
I don't understand the question. Each person created by God is unique and loved.
It's an object lesson and also a bit more, but Jesus is not rejecting his mother. If He were He could have done so at age 12. In the Temple precincts, when Mary said to him, '...Your father(Joseph) and I have been searching for you.', Jesus could have then said, 'Who is my Father? My Father is in Heaven.' But although He is Eternally God, Jesus was obedient to his earthly parents, because He obeyed the Commandment which says, 'Obey thy Father and thy Mother'. Now at 30+, He doesn't suddenly become a Law breaker, nor does the Law become ineffectual when a person reaches 12, 18 or 30 yrs of age. Jesus kept every commandment perfectly. Rather Matthew is telling us, that it is not flesh and blood that will inherit God's Kingdom, as Christ says elsewhere, but those who like Elizabeth exclaimed of Mary herself, hear God's word and keep it. It was because Mary heard God's word and took it took heart that the Kingdom of God was ushered in through her. And it is for this reason, we bless her.
