What Catholics Believe About Mary: Immaculate Conception, Virginity & the Rosary
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10-Dec-2025
Join Dr. Edward Sri as he answers some of the internet's most asked questions about Mary. Who is Mary? Why do Catholics pray to Mary? How could she be a virgin if Jesus had brothers and sisters according to the Bible? Find out answers to these and more questions in this episode of What Catholics Believe.
00:00 What Catholics Believe about Mary
00:16 Who is Mary
00:51 Why do Catholics worship Mary?
01:41 Do Catholics give too much attention to Mary?
02:36 Why do Catholics pray to Mary?
03:18 Are we supposed to be praying to dead people?
03:52 Shouldn't we go directly to God with our prayers?
05:09 What is the Immaculate Conception?
05:44 How was Mary conceived without sin?
07:15 Is there biblical support for the Immaculate Conception?
08:58 What are the other Marian dogmas?
09:45 How could Mary be a virgin if the bible says Jesus had brothers and sisters?
10:54 Why do we call Mary our mother?
12:16 What is the Rosary?
13:22 Where did the Rosary come from?
15:15 Why do Catholics pray the Hail Mary?
Buy "Rethinking Mary" here: https://catholic.market/publishers/ignatius-press-augustine-institute/rethinking-mary-in-the-new-testament/
Watch Lectio: Mary here: https://app.formed.org/app/collections/123211
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