Vatican Official’s Marian Title Restrictions Undermine Catholic Doctrine
A CNA article dated December 28, 2025 reports Msgr. Maurizio Gronchi, consultant for the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith,” claiming the titles “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of All Graces” can still be used in popular devotion despite their prohibition in official documents. This position constitutes not merely theological negligence but direct subversion of immutable Marian doctrine confirmed by centuries of magisterial teaching.
Eclipse of Mary’s Unique Mediation
The conciliar sect’s doctrinal note “Mother of the Faithful People” (November 4, 2025) declares these Marian titles “inappropriate,” revealing a fundamental rupture with Catholic tradition. Gronchi’s assertion that
“Mary participates with her heart… but it is a participation that the document calls dispositive”
directly contradicts Pope Pius X’s encyclical Ad Diem Illum (1904): “Mary is the supreme Minister of the distribution of graces” (para. 14). The reduction of Our Lady’s role to mere disposition constitutes theological minimalism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis as characteristic of Modernism.
Historical Revisionism Against Magisterial Consensus
Gronchi’s claim that
“this problem has been discussed for 99 years since 1926”
constitutes historical revisionism. The title Mediatrix of All Graces received magisterial endorsement in Leo XIII’s Octobri Mense (1891): “All graces… are dispensed by the hands of the Holy Mother of God” (para. 4). St. John Damascene’s teaching “The whole treasury of graces is in your hands” (Homily on the Nativity) was affirmed at the Council of Ephesus (431 AD). This systematic suppression of doctrinal continuity exposes the conciliar sect’s inherent apostasy from Catholic Tradition.
Sacramental Ontology Versus Conciliar Reductionism
The assertion that
“Mary gives birth to Jesus, but on the cross, Jesus dies, not Mary”
employs false dichotomies condemned by Ven. Pope Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (1943): “She offered Him on Golgotha to the Eternal Father… as a new Eve, for all the children of Adam” (para. 110). The denial of Mary’s coredemptive suffering at Calvary contradicts St. Bernard’s teaching: “The sword pierced your soul, so that through your soul the sword might reach your Son’s body” (Sermon for the Octave of the Assumption). This constitutes not mere prudential restriction but heresy against Mary’s unique participation in the economy of salvation.
Pastoral Malpractice in Devotional Guidance
Gronchi’s recommendation to
“pray to Mary… with the holy rosary”
while suppressing doctrinal foundations exposes the conciliar sect’s sacramental nominalism. The Rosary’s efficacy depends precisely on understanding Mary as Mediatrix – a truth explicitly invoked in the Fatima prayers suppressed by these same authorities. As Pope Leo XIII declared in Supremi Apostolatus Officio (1883): “The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer… for imploring the Divine Mother’s intercession” (para. 1). To sever devotion from doctrine is to practice the heresy of action condemned in St. Pius X’s Notre Charge Apostolique.
Systemic Apostasy Manifest in Marian Negation
The pseudo-theological justification that
“now is the time to clarify these titles”
reveals the conciliar sect’s evolutionary dogmatism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to continual and indefinite progress” (Proposition 5). This Modernist corruption parallels the 1917 Masonic “Miracle of the Sun” deception, where natural phenomena replaced supernatural truth. The systematic dismantling of Marian doctrine constitutes spiritual warfare against the Woman clothed with the sun (Apocalypse 12:1), fulfilling St. Pius X’s warning about “enemies within” the Church.
Conclusion: Return to Immemorial Tradition
True Catholics must reject this doctrinal vandalism and cling to the Lex Orandi of the pre-1958 Missal, where the Feast of Mary Mediatrix of All Graces (May 31) and countless liturgical texts confirm her unique cooperation in redemption. As St. Louis de Montfort prophesied: “The power of Mary over all devils will be particularly outstanding in these latter times” (True Devotion, para. 54). Only through uncompromising adherence to integral Catholic Tradition can we merit Our Lady’s protection against this ecclesial apostasy.
Source:
Vatican expert: Co-Redemptrix title of Mary not absolutely prohibited (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 28.12.2025