A response to two comments
August 26, 2008

Last July, during my unwanted hiatus from this blog, I received two comments which I never got around to responding to.
The first was on Hatred of the Virgin Mary, and the second on Do Protestants hate Mary?
Hey
I am a Lutheran, and I understand that when catholics ‘pray’ to saints, they are asking the saints to [...]

August 22: Queenship of Mary
August 22, 2008

Today is the memorial of the Queenship of Mary.  Some non-Catholics object to the title “Queen of Heaven” on account of the book of Jeremiah:
“The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to offer libations to strange gods, [...]