Haha. How did I know you would respond with this classic example of evasiveness. Oh, he was just writing his personal opinion, he says. Oh, he wasn't quoting from the patristic wisdom of the church, that's just you're opinion. Haha.
And not one comment on the actual quotes themselves, from saints, popes, and others, put together as examples of Catholic teaching. Put together by a doctor of the church, with the intent of growing the faith of priests and laymen.
Ligouri was canonized as a saint by Pope Gregory XIV in 1839 and was declared a doctor of the church by Pope Pius IX. He is one of the 32 doctors of the church whose writingsare considered especially trustworthy and of authority.
Are you BoL saying he was wrong????
For example, Ligouri said in his book, the reasoning behind it. “I endeavored to collect, from as many authors as I could lay my hands on, the choicest passages, extracted from Fathers and theologians, and those which seemed to me to be the most to the point, and have put them together in this book, in order that the devout may with little trouble and expense be able to inflame themselves with the love of Mary, and more particularly to furnish the priests with matter for their sermons, wherewith to excite others to devotion towards this divine Mother.”
Crushes the serpent’s head
“From the verybeginning God foretold the victory and empire that our Queen would one day obtain over the serpent, when he nnounced that a woman should come into the world to conquer him: I will put enmities a between thee and the woman—she shall crush thy head.” Liguori, p. 141
“Mary, then, was this great and valiant woman, who conquered the devil and crushed his head by bringing down his pride, and as it was foretold by God himself: She shall crush thy head. Some doubt as to whether these words refer to Mary, or whether they do not rather refer to Jesus Christ; for the Septuagint renders them, He shall crush thy head. But in the Vulgate, which alone was approved of by the sacred Council of Trent, we find She, and not He; and thus it wasunderstood by St. Ambrose, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and a great many others.” Liguori, p. 142
What subterfuge! What deception! What lies!
You ask, so what!???
I stated in the beginning what constitutes Antichrist. The replacing of the true Christ with a substitute. And right here is another classic example, approved of by early church fathers and the infallible council of Trent.