continuing . . .  Rome banned the devotion to Mary Priest in 1926, but similar strains continue, such as Mary Co-Redeemer. 

In the Roman Missal with Catholic liturgy in English there is an illustration opposite the page with Eucharistic Prayer I. At first glance, you’d think it is just another crucified on a cross with a Mary alongside.  But look closely and you see she has her hands raised up and in her hands is a chalice or tall cup of some sort to catch the Holy Blood that spurts from Jesus’ right side. This is the same gesture the priest makes at Mass holding his chalice high. Is this Mary Priest? 

I like to think that the blood-red candy canes on the Christmas tree (derived from the Goddess' Tree of Life) are just an aberration and that most of the past was rather less violent, as one Sicilian put it to me, WE are God's holy fruit. That would be more to the point than all this talk about blood and sacrifice.