Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel shares a prayer by “Pope” Francis who believes that God hears the prayers of those who pray to a stone statue:
Calling himself a pilgrim with the pilgrims, Pope Francis asked “which Mary” did the crowds come to honor? The Mary who is “a teacher of the spiritual life, the first to follow Jesus on the ‘narrow way’ of the cross by giving us an example, or a lady ‘unapproachable’ and impossible to imitate?” He then bowed down before a statue of Mary and offered it a golden rose.