ROBERTO - Most Catholics worship the "Virgin" Mary as if she were the main God which she isn't since God is a Man, right? I use to be Catholic so I think that the "Virgins"and the "Virgin" Mary that people claim others saw might have been Luciifer!What do you think?
I have been wondering, could the "virgin" Mary that people claim to have seen be our Heavenly Mother? Since the Mary lady that God had chosen to give birth to Jesus is the Mother of Jesus, is it possible that she is also our mother, our Heavenly Mother, our Heavenly Father's wife? If she is, than maybe God has more than one woman in His life. However, according to the Catholics, there were other chosen females, known by the catholics as the "virgins" which were supposedly helped by God, our Heavenly Father.
Thinking of all this disturbs me because maybe the "virgin"(Mary)de Guadalupe that Catholics like to worship (since Jesus' mom is the Mary lady that God chose to be Jesus' mother) was actually Satan in disguise. Thinking of all this is more disturbing because it might make you wonder about whether Satan can be in the form of a beautiful, nice talking, angel! Maybe, just maybe, in My opinion, the most abominable church is the Catholic church because other people have said that they got visions of the "virgin" Mary giving visions of constructing the church(the Catholic church) that is dedicated to her. What if the "Virgin" Mary that people say that others saw turned out to be Satan?! A lot of Catholics worship these "virgins?!"

JOEL - According to LDS doctrine, God is most definatley an exalted male personage. I don't know what these other people are seeing. They could be true visions of some sort; or their source could be from Satan trying to deceive them; or they could be hallucinating; or they could be making it up in their minds because they really want to see it; or they could simply be lying about what they have seen to bring attention to themselves or their cause. I do know that most of what they say they see would not be consistant with the order of heaven according to what God has revealed to us.
There are no known visitations of the "Heavenly Mother" to anyone. I also know of no revealed information identifying Mary as our "Heavenly Mother".
I do believe that it is possible for the spirits of people who have died to appear to loved ones on earth and perhaps some have assumed, because of their Catholic faith, that what they saw was the virgin Mary. But only those who have claimed these visions can know for sure what they did or did not see.
True reports of people who have seen spirits of departed loved ones are only for their personal benefit and would not be the way God would reveal His doctrine and will to His children; He would do it through a living prophet.
False visions result from seeking "signs"; authentic visions usually come unbidden. "He that seeketh signs shall see signs, but not unto salvation". Faith cometh not by signs, but signs follow those that believe" (D&C 67:7, 9).
According to LDS beliefs the Catholic Church by itself is not the great abominable church, but might be included in the definition. The "Great and Abominable Church", also known as "Babylon" and the "great harlot" (Rev. 17:5), is used to signify all churches or any other type of organization or cause, which are designed to take men on a course away from God and salvation. I think only God could know for sure which churches or organizations this would include. Characteristics of pride, greed, and covenant abandonment are associated with this church in sharp contrast to the church of God. This "church" will eventually fall when the Savior begins His Millennial reign (Rev. 18).