Why Catholic? The obvious answer from a non-Catholic perspective would be I was baptized as a baby. What choice did I have? That would be a wrong assumption.
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Hail Mary, Our Queen
It has been eight days since the Feast of the Assumption of Mary. Today, although not a Holy Day of Obligation as the Assumption was, Catholics celebrate the Queenship of the Blessed Mother. Much of Catholic Adoration for Mary is difficult for non-Catholics to understand.
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Catholics celebrate the Queenship of Mary because her Divine Son, Jesus Christ, is Lord and King. It’s just that simple. Pope Pius XII declared the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, that she was taken, body and soul, into heavenly glory. Not by her own power, as Christ entered Heaven, but called up by Him.
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When it comes to Mary, many non-Catholic Christians find the reverence Catholics hold for Mary difficult to accept. They struggle with the Immaculate Conception, the reference of Mary as “Mother of God”, the Assumption of Mary into heaven. But the most difficult is the Coronation of Mary as Queen.
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