While praising devotion to Mary, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith firmly rejected moves to formally proclaim Mary as "co-redemptrix" or "co-mediatrix." In a lengthy doctrinal note titled ...
“We don’t need to say that Mary is co-redemptrix, that Jesus needs Mary to save humanity. Mary herself is prepared, saved by God; she is a creature of God. She makes herself the servant of her own son ...
The Vatican is set to settle a longstanding debate over the role of the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ’s mother, in salvation. On November 4, the Vatican’s doctrine office will share a document clarifying ...
“Mary, the Immaculate Virgin of Nazareth, through her free and feminine ‘Yes,’ consented to the conception of [the] Divine Word in her womb by the power of the Holy Spirit, and thus mediated the ‘one ...
The doctrinal note Mater Populi Fidelis, published by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith and approved by Pope Leo XIV, is a magisterial intervention on some Marian titles of interest to the ...
On the Friday before Holy Week, Pope Francis asked people to keep a long tradition of Catholic piety by focusing on "the suffering and sorrows of Our Lady." "Honor Our Lady and say, 'This is my mother ...