As publications from Time magazine to Christianity Today have discovered recently, Mary, the mother of Jesus, is not just for Catholics anymore.
Features on Mary are perennial favorites for editors looking for a religion-themed story before Christmas, and in the last few years many of these articles have focused on the increasing popularity of Mary among Protestants.
Marianist Father Thomas Thompson, editor of the Marian Library Newsletter at the University of Dayton in Ohio, points out that the expanding Protestant acceptance of Mary is based upon a strictly scriptural view of her, rather than on any change in Protestant theology.

"We need not go through Mary in order to get to Jesus," George concluded, "but we can join with Mary in pointing others to him."

Well obviously someone went through Mary.

A proper understanding of Catholic Marian belief can be had for FREE from The Catholic Home Study Service's course "Mary: Christ's Mother and Ours" at http://www.amm.org/chss.htm. Also, Catholic Answers online library has several very good article that help explain Catholic Marian beliefs. http://www.catholic.com/library.asp