“The Proposed Marian Dogma: the What and the Why”
In simple, yet poetic and profound language the third chapter of the Book of Genesis narrates the story of the fall of man. Three creatures play the major roles in this momentous drama: the serpent,...
View ArticleMary, Mediatrix of All Graces, in the Papal Magisterium of Pope John Paul II
I. Introduction: The Post-Conciliar Situation The Servant of God Pope John Paul II has left to the Church a huge body of Marian teaching, which, in its quantity alone, is greater than that of all of...
View ArticleOur Lady of All Nations, the Woman of Genesis and the Apocalypse
I. Enmity between the Woman and the Serpent In his profound Marian Encyclical Redemptoris Mater of March 25, 1987, the Servant of God, Pope John Paul II stated: In the salvific design of the Most Holy...
View ArticleMary Co-redemptrix: The Beloved Associate of Christ, Part II
The Situation on the Eve of the Second Vatican Council First, it must be remembered that the Second Vatican Council was convoked just at a time when Marian doctrine and piety had reached an apex (98),...
View ArticleMary Co-redemptrix: The Beloved Associate of Christ, Part I
Even though the explicit treatment of Mary’s collaboration in the work of redemption has appeared in ever-sharper relief in the Papal Magisterium only within the past two centuries, there is...
View ArticleMary Coredemptrix in the Writings of Frederick William Faber
Frederick William Faber was born in Calverly in the English County of Yorkshire on the 28th of June 1814. He was born in the vicarage of his grandfather, who was the Anglican Vicar of Calverly, (1) and...
View ArticleThe Theological Relevance of the Lady of All Nations Apparitions
The theme of Mary as Coredemptrix and Mediatrix, that is, of the Mother of God as the most intimate human collaborator in the work of our redemption and as the chief dispenser of the grace of the...
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