#12678 Do Catholics Treat Mary Like a God? Gospel of John, New Eve - Trent Horn

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🗓️ 17 April 2026

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“Do Catholics treat Mary like a God?” This question opens a discussion on the role of Mary in Catholicism, addressing misconceptions about worship. The conversation also touches on whether Mary guided the writing of the Gospel of John and clarifies how Catholics view her as the New Eve, alongside the significance of Marian apparitions and the practice of praying to her.

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Questions Covered:

06:00 – Do Catholics treat Mary like a God?
10:35 – Was Mary the guide for the writing of the Gospel of John?
14:00 – How do I get across that Catholics don’t worship Mary, and that this is not a threat?
18:47 – Can you explain Mary as the new Eve?
36:19 – Why does William believe there has been so many Marian apparitions and not others?
43:13 – There is not one example in the Bible to pray to Mary, so why do we pray to Mary? Abraham is called the father of faith and not even he has an example of people praying to him.

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0:11.5	Learn more at realestateforlife.org. Welcome back, Catholic Answers live, Edgar Lujano, filling in for Sykelet today.
0:37.1	It's a pleasure to be here with you all.
0:38.8	Second hour, we're going to have William Albrecht here in a few minutes.
0:42.1	But first, before we jump into the topic, I would be remiss to not mention that today is the feast of St. Bernadette, which is the visionary of Our Lady of Lord.
0:52.9	So what better day than to then a mayor i guess a merry
0:56.6	associated apparitionary to talk about mary on this wonderful day we're going to have
1:02.4	william albreck talking about that so if you have questions about mary anything in regards to her
1:08.0	whether it is private you know private apparitions or if it's something about her role in
1:13.0	tradition or role in her dogmas or even her role in the Old Testament typology, any of those
1:20.6	questions would be great for Williams. So give us a call 8883187-884. That's AAA31-Truth to ask your question.
1:30.0	It's a beautiful, a beautiful day for such a topic.
1:34.4	Before, and before we jump into those specific topics, I just got to say because William was
1:38.5	there this past weekend.
1:40.2	It was fantastic to see everyone at the conference of Trent this past weekend where we had a lot of these content creators there, including William. We were all able to gather together with these content creators. I would say there were maybe what, about 20 of them. And we were able to just come together and fellowship and get off the internet
2:03.2	as the kids say touch grass and hang out with each other in a way that I think the whole
2:08.3	purpose of online evangelization is for is to eventually get off the internet and actually
2:13.4	encounter one another here in person. So it was a pleasure.
2:18.3	It was a pleasure of being with everyone, including with William.
2:21.0	And I think all the speakers did a fascinating job, great job, and including our very own
2:27.4	Emily Dinanee, who gave a talk, I think her very first talk with Catholic Answers there
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