Lies about Our Virgin Mother

Recently, I've been listening to the album La bele Marie, which is a collection of Medieval French chants dedicated to the Virgin Mary. This album is done by the musical group Anonymous4, which is well known for other recordings of Medieval religious music. I must say they do a fantastic job in singing these chants, and I strongly recommend this along with their other albums. However much I enjoy their music, I was very upset to read this pseudo-historical rambling within the album booklet(and can be read at the top link):

"From the Renaissance until today, the Catholic Church has periodically found it necessary to suppress the influence of the Virgin Mary in its liturgy and traditions."

Since when has the Catholic Church suppressed the Virgin Mary? I really cannot think of one example. Perhaps they're mistaking the actions of Protestant leaders who did do such a thing. In fact there are too many incidents of the Church honoring the Virgin that it's totally absurd to argue this. Why on earth would the Church find it necessary to suppress Mary? Well apparently it was because "[h]er cult, at certain times and places, became so zealous that Mary-worship overshadowed even the adoration of the Deity." This is equally absurd, the Catholic understanding of Mary is inseparable from her role as being the mother of Christ Our Lord. How on earth can venerating her (since we don't actually worship Mary) overshadow adoration of the Holy Father and Son? Of course this not explained.

Sadly the pseudo-history doesn't stop there, it continues until the very end when it states "There are those who hear in such extravagant praises of the Virgin, and in the cascades of natural images used to describe her, distant echoes of an intense prehistoric culture of goddess worship native to European soil. "

This can be knocked down on two levels. 1) Mary has little if any connection to pagan goddesses as this site goes into detail. This notion is largely the result of attempts made by Protestant propagandists to discredit the Catholic faith as nothing more than paganism with a Christian gloss.

2) The notion of there ever being a goddess worshipping society in prehistoric Europe has long been refuted as nothing more than Feminist nonsense. No serious scholar supports this assertion.

It's really upsetting that a musical group so devoted to preserving the great musical traditions of the Catholic faith would resort to this. Oh well. So anyways, enjoy the music of Anonymous4, for it truly is something worth listening to. Just beware of the phony history they preach.