Im new to being a follower of Christ and my girlfriends cousins who’s studying to be catholic priest is kinda pressing me lol
Me (Protestant) and my gf (Catholic) have been butting heads about the saints and the Virgin Mary. So she asked her cousin who’s studying to be a priest in a catholic church and this is what he replied with (I’m translating from Spanish so hopefully it make sense)
If your boyfriend belongs to the "Protestant" branch of Christianity—as is the case with him—they claim that we worship a woman who is dead. In an exorcism recounted by Father Gabriele Amorth, Satan himself admits that he fears the Virgin Mary, for she is the only human being who—despite lacking divinity—has humiliated him; he states that the mere act of the priest invoking her name during an exorcism causes them to flee. The saints tell us that a single *Hail Mary* shatters the Devil's head. And this is clearly demonstrated by the apparitions at Fatima—including the Miracle of the Sun— the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes, and the apparition and miraculous unveiling of Our Lady of the Oak. The Devil himself confirms this.