Brazilian Archbishop Denies Mary’s Co-Redemption: A Modernist Betrayal of Catholic Doctrine
[X] portal reports that Archbishop Juárez Marqués of Teresina, Brazil, declared on November 27:
“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, but she is not co-redemptrix; she is now our intercessor.”
This statement directly opposes two millennia of Catholic teaching and exposes the conciliar sect’s systematic dismantling of Marian doctrine.
Undermining the Divine Economy of Redemption
The archbishop’s claim that “Jesus needs Mary to save humanity” is a deliberate strawman argument. Catholic theology has always taught that while Christ alone (solus Christus) is the sufficient cause of redemption, He willed to associate His Mother uniquely in His redemptive work. Pope Pius X explicitly taught in Ad Diem Illum (1904):
“Mary… offered Him on Golgotha to the Eternal Father… together with the sacrifice of her maternal rights and motherly love… to such extent that she may be rightly said to have redeemed the human race together with Christ.”
This is not innovation but the sensus fidei demonstrated in the writings of St. Bernard, St. Alphonsus Liguori, and Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Iucunda Semper (1894), which states:
“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.”
Theological Contradictions in Marian Dogmas
While correctly listing the four Marian dogmas, the archbishop omits their theological consequences. The Immaculate Conception (defined by Pius IX in Ineffabilis Deus, 1854) establishes Mary’s singular preservation from original sin, making her the New Eve who actively crushes Satan’s head (Gen 3:15). Pope Pius XII confirmed in Mystici Corporis (1943):
“She it was who… offered Him on Golgotha to the Eternal Father for all the children of Adam.”
To deny her co-redemptive role while affirming her Assumption (defined in 1950) creates a theological paradox – why would God assume a merely passive creature body and soul into heaven?
Deconstructing the Conciliar Sect’s Position
The archbishop’s appeal to communion with “Pope Leo” (the antipope occupying the Vatican) reveals his true allegiance to the conciliar revolution. The document Mater Populi Fidelis he cites continues the modernist agenda begun at Vatican II, which systematically suppressed Marian maximalism. Compare this to Pope Benedict XV’s authorization of the Mass of Mary Mediatrix of All Graces in 1921 or Ven. Pius XII’s repeated use of “Mediatrix” in official documents. The current suppression of these titles fulfills St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi against modernists who
“put aside the ancient terms”
to mask doctrinal corruption.
Symptomatic of Broader Apostasy
This attack on Marian doctrine follows the conciliar sect’s pattern of:
- Reducing supernatural realities to naturalistic psychological categories (Mary as mere “intercessor” rather than Queen of Heaven)
- Creating false dichotomies between Christ’s sufficiency and Mary’s participation (contra John Paul II’s Redemptoris Mater §39 – though his authority is rejected)
- Silencing defined truths by bureaucratic fiat rather than dogmatic definition
The archbishop’s distinction between “veneration” and “worship” of saints is technically correct but irrelevant. The true crisis is his denial of Mary’s unique cooperation in redemption, which St. Louis de Montfort called “the sanctifying secret unknown to even most learned theologians.” (True Devotion, §14)
Conclusion: Rejecting the Neo-Modernist Agenda
As the Church taught through Pope Pius XII:
“The foundation of all Our confidence is found in the Blessed Virgin Mary. For 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.”
(Fulgens Corona, 1953). The Brazilian prelate’s statements constitute material heresy by denying truths sententia definitive tenenda (requiring definitive assent). Faithful Catholics must utterly reject this conciliar sect’s attempt to dismantle Our Lady’s glories while clinging to the immutable doctrine preserved only in those communities maintaining integral Catholic faith.
Source:
Mary is the servant of her son, but not co-redemptrix, Brazilian archbishop says (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 03.12.2025