By Brad Miner, Catholic Thing - When our “sophistication” leads us to assume (Marian) apparitions... are nothing more than the fantasies of disturbed teenagers or psychotic nuns or avaricious scammers... then it’s a short step to believing that Mary was just another of those disturbed teenagers... Of all the poisonous aspects of the Reformation, none is more tragic, saving the disunity it caused, than the elimination of Mary from the heart of Christianity.