Five things many people say about the Catholic Church that are lies

1.-Catholics Worship Mary

Let’s start with the big one. Catholics do not worship Mary, in fact [we] Catholics only worship God in his Trinitarian form as The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. Just like St. Luke 4:8 indicates, “Jesus said to him in reply, “It is written: ‘You shall worship the Lord, your God, and him alone shall you serve.’”” We as Catholics honor Mary as the Mother of Christ, as she even remained by the Cross at the end. Whoever tells you Catholics worship Mary is rather lying or uninformed.

I thanks Brother Alexis Bugnolo for this tip too: "that "worship" in English has 2 senses "adoration" and "reverence", which is why in UK they say "worshipful" in regard to mayors and aldermen. In USA the second sense has faded from use, which led those ignorant of English to concoct this charge. Adoration belongs to God alone, and if the Queen of England can be reverenced without sin, much more the Mother”

For more please click in the link:

http://catholicwindow.blogspot.com/2015/03/hail-mary.html

2.-The Pope is a [false] Prophet

I honestly have no idea who started this rumor, but to start with this topic the Pope isn’t a Prophet. The Catholic Church believes that the last prophet was St. John the Baptist, therefore it is impossible for the Pope to be a Prophet. The Pope is the Vicar of Christ.

What is the meaning of the word Vicar?

In you analyze the meaning of the word Vicar it is like the word “Substitute”.

The Pope being the Vicar of Christ means he is the substitute or the he represents of Christ down here on Earth until Christ returns again…no the Pope is not equal to Christ. Just like the substitute teacher is not equal to the teacher, neither is the Pope equal to Christ…and just like the teacher tells the substitute teacher what he will show in class, the same way Christ told the first Pope (St. Peter) what he would teach the world.

3.-Catholics Worship Images/Statues

No, no and simply no. Icons and statues are just there to help the Catholic Church with Catechism (teaching). Back in the ancient days most people were illiterate so we had to come with a new way of teaching them, that idea was “let’s use statues and icons”.

For furthermore analysis on Idolatry vs the use of Statues and Icons check this article:

http://catholicwindow.blogspot.com/2015/03/idolatry.html

4.-Catholics don’t follow nor read the Bible

This is a big one, as many Protestants do believe this however the Bible was put together in the fourth Century by Catholic Bishops at the Council of Nicaea. The Catholic Church does follow the Bible, we consider the Bible as the most important of all the Church’s documents. Furthermore the Church offers Bible study classes. The Catholic Church is the one that codified the Bible, and the one who defend the word of God from 10,000 horrible erroneous translations (or even more). The Church corrected people such as Gnostic and Ebionites, and the Church reads the Bible aloud in Public.

For more about the Council of Nicaea and the Bible check:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02543a.htm

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/nicaea.html

5.-Catholics worship Satan

While this is not a big one, I decided to talk about this one. Some Protestants (mostly Fundamentalists) argue that Catholics are Satanic, the main proof that they use: The Upside Down Cross:

The Upside Down Cross is actually the cross of St. Peter. During his capture under orders of Emperor Nero. St. Peter was going to be crucify (as Jesus was), but he didn’t felt worthy enough as dying as his Master, so he asked the Romans to crucify him upside down. This of course is a terrible way of dying because the blood goes to your head. We can see that Jesus spoke about Peter’s dying:

“He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was distressed that he had said to him a third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” [Jesus] said to him, “Feed my sheep. Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”” [St. John 21:17-19]

Furthermore we can quote St. Clement of Rome too when he says, "Let us take the noble examples of our own generation. Through jealousy and envy the greatest and most just pillars of the Church were persecuted, and came even unto death… Peter, through unjust envy, endured not one or two but many labors, and at last, having delivered his testimony, departed unto the place of glory due to him."

In short words…the upside down cross isn’t satanic, it is the cross of Saint Peter.