Vatican’s Denial of Marian Mediation Contradicts Catholic Tradition
Vatican News portal (November 19, 2025) reports on a doctrinal note Mater Populi Fidelis rejecting Marian titles Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix, quoting Fr. Maurizio Gronchi’s claim that such titles foster “superstition” and distort Trinitarian theology. The article notes Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández’s endorsement of this position while acknowledging St. John Paul II’s brief consideration of these titles in 1996. Significantly absent from the document’s drafting were contributions from Pontifical Marian institutions, suggesting institutional dissent against traditional Mariology.
Subversion of Defined Marian Doctrine
The conciliar sect’s document claims that Marian mediation “undermines the Trinity” – a position directly opposed to the Church’s perennial teaching. Pope Pius XII in Munificentissimus Deus (1950) dogmatically declared that Mary’s Assumption occurred “by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by Our own authority” (n.44), affirming her unique cooperation in redemption. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches: “To the Virgin Mary God gave the true honor of divine motherhood… that she might intercede for us with her Son whom she brought forth.” (Article III).
Fr. Gronchi’s assertion that “the Virgin Mary doesn’t have the role of holding back God’s wrath” constitutes heresy against revelation. Sacred Scripture records Christ’s first public miracle at Cana occurring through Mary’s intercession (John 2:1-11), demonstrating her mediatory role. St. Bernard of Clairvaux observes: “Such is the will of God who would have us obtain everything through Mary” (Homilia super Missus est, II.17). The conciliar sect’s denial echoes Protestant heresies condemned by Pius IX in Ineffabilis Deus: “God has committed to Mary the treasury of all good things, in order that everyone may know that through her are obtained every hope, every grace, and all salvation.”
Omission of Magisterial Consensus
The article conspicuously avoids mentioning pre-conciliar papal teaching establishing Mary’s co-redemptive role. Leo XIII’s Iucunda Semper (1894) declares: “The recourse we have to Mary in prayer follows upon the office she continuously fills by the side of the throne of God as Mediatrix of Divine grace.” Benedict XV’s Inter Sodalicia (1918) explicitly states: “Mary suffered and almost died with her suffering Son; for the salvation of mankind she renounced her mother’s rights and, as far as it depended on her, offered her Son to placate divine justice. She can therefore claim redemption, together with Christ.“
“John Paul II did not use it in his 1987 encyclical Redemptoris Mater… nor did the Second Vatican Council”
This selective historiography ignores that Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium (62) – despite its modernist ambiguities – retains the title Mediatrix: “Mary’s function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power.” The conciliar sect’s current rejection demonstrates its theological devolution, violating Pius XII’s warning in Humani Generis: “To return to the sources of revelation is to return to the monuments of Tradition” (n.21).
Modernist Methodology Exposed
The admission that “no collaborating Mariologists could be found” reveals the document’s ideological nature. Authentic Catholic theology follows St. Vincent of Lérins’ principle: “quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est” (what has been believed everywhere, always, by all). The Pontifical International Marian Academy’s non-participation constitutes silent resistance to this doctrinal rupture, recalling St. Pius X’s condemnation in Pascendi of modernists who “pervert the eternal concept of truth” (n.39).
Cardinal Fernández’s dismissal of Co-Redemptrix continues the conciliar sect’s program condemned in Pius XI’s Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will receive the greatest blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (n.19). By diminishing Mary’s queenship, the neo-church attacks Christ’s royal dignity itself, fulfilling Pius X’s warning about modernist attempts “to destroy the vital energy of the Church” (Lamentabili Sane, Introduction).
Conclusion: Return to Integral Marian Devotion
The conciliar sect’s rejection of Marian mediation constitutes apostasy from Catholic Tradition. As St. Louis de Montfort teaches: “God the Holy Spirit, finding His dear Spouse present in souls, communicates Himself to them abundantly” (True Devotion to Mary, 36). Catholics must cling to the Sub Tuum Praesidium prayer’s ancient witness: “We fly to thy patronage, O holy Mother of God; despise not our petitions in our necessities, but deliver us always from all dangers, O glorious and blessed Virgin.” The faithful respond to this latest assault with the Church’s perennial cry: Ad Iesum per Mariam – To Jesus through Mary!
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Virgin Mary doesn’t have ‘the role of holding back God’s wrath,’ Vatican expert says (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 19.11.2025