The Catholics have the ideas about Mary wrong

I apologize for not using round one to its fullest potential and for taking so long to respond. The nuances of using this forum are still beyond me. I will take full advantage of this round. First I would like to cover exactly what it is that Catholics believe in regards to Mary, confirming or disputing the statements you have already put forward. "Catholics believe that Mary is holy"" This is true. The Catholic Church teaches that Mary is holy, but also that she maintains a unique holiness and not a holiness that is greater than that of other holy men and women. (CCC 492) Catholics maintain that it must be this way in order to truly fulfill the Old Covenant. In the Old Covenant the "Word of God" was kept inside of the Ark of the Covenant on sacred tablets of stone which are the Ten Commandments of God given to Moses on Mount Sinai. Jesus is recognized as the "Word made flesh" (John 1:14) and Catholics recognize Mary as the new Ark, participating in the fulfillment of the Old Covenant by carrying the "Word" inside of herself. Like the Ark, Mary is holy and pure, but we will discuss her purity later. ""and the subject of preaching"" I am confused by this point. Does this mean that they feel the need to preach about her? If so, then please see (CCC 487) which states that the Church"s teachings about Mary illuminate what it teaches about Christ. ""intercedes for us"" I would like you to expound on this point more. What is wrong with Mary, who gave birth to Christ and whose maternal nature allowed her a unique closeness to Christ, to pray to her Son on our behalf? Logic would dictate that Jesus would give a special attention to his own Mother. In addition, Jesus stated that God was a "God of the living, not the dead." (Mark 12:27) The living can communicate and they can pray to God. Therefore, it seems logical that any and all souls, both in heaven and on earth can "intercede" for us. Meaning they can speak to God on our behalf. Mary is not the exception. ". . . and worship. . ." This is untrue. While Catholics pray to Mary, in a similar way that they pray to the Father or the Son, the understanding is that prayer is a form of communication. It is not exclusively a method of worship, although prayer to Jesus can be used in order to worship, praise, or adore God. Catholics believe that worship of Mary as a divinity, or any individual or object is a sin. (CCC 2112) "This is putting a mere human into a god." If Catholics worshipped Mary, then you would be correct. But since Catholics do not in fact worship Mary, excluding the actions of some individuals who may be misinformed or ignorant of the fact that it is a sin, this is not true and no person or thing is being made into God in the Catholic Church. "Mary admitted she needed to be saved." There are many ways that a person can be saved. I will use the infamous pit analogy to illustrate the what Mary meant when she referred to God as "my savior" (Luke 1:47). If you were walking in the woods with a friend and you came across a pit, but saw it too late, then your friend could save you from that pit in two different ways. First, they could pull you up out of the pit after you had fallen into it. Second, they could have caught you before you ever fell in, pulling you back from the edge. In both cases your friend saved you and was your savior. Mary"s recognition of God as her savior can speak to the fact that God saved her by preserving her from sin since the moment of her conception, shielding her from sin and preparing her for bearing the Christ. "Catholics believe that Mary never sinned. However, scripture teaches that all men have sinned." Catholics do believe that Mary never sinned. Paul does say that all men have sinned. (Romans 3:23) However, as Matt Slick put nicely in his article Have All People Sinned or Not? The exception is always Jesus. (1 Peter 2:22) Looking at these two contradictory statements one has to ask, does the bible contradict itself? Is Jesus really even a man then? Or maybe Paul was making a blanket statement to make a point? Catholics believe that Paul was trying to make a point and that this passage does not explicitly contradict the idea of Mary being sinless. Catholics believe that all men, besides Jesus and Mary, have sinned. Mary, as mentioned before, is the New Ark of the Covenant. In addition to that, Mary is also recognized by the Church as the New Eve, in the same way Christ is the New David or the New Adam. While Eve"s one sin helped to bring about the Fall of Mankind, it was Mary"s lack of sin that points to Christ"s redemption of the world. It is fitting, being the New Ark and the New Eve that Mary would have been sinless and pure, providing a sinless human nature from which the Christ would be born. However, the Catholic Church does NOT believe that it HAD to be this way. God is not limited to ceremony and the Salvation of the world was not entirely dependent upon Mary being sinless or being a virgin. However, the belief in Mary"s purity from sin and her perpetual virginity points to significance of the person she carried, NOT herself as a human being.