Vatican’s Marian Title Retreat: A Betrayal of Catholic Tradition

Catholic News Agency reports that some Protestant scholars welcomed a recent Vatican document discouraging traditional Marian titles like “Co-Redemptrix” and limiting “Mediatrix” usage. The doctrinal note *Mater Populi Fidelis*, approved by antipope Leo XIV and signed by “Cardinal” Víctor Manuel Fernández, claims these titles “could obscure” Christ’s sole mediation. Protestant theologians praised the document for aligning with their rejection of Catholic Mariology, with Lutheran professor David Luy affirming it addresses “central Protestant concerns” about Christ’s unique mediatorship.


Surrender to Protestant Heresies

The conciliar sect’s document constitutes open rebellion against the immutable teaching that Maria nunquam satis laudabitur (“Mary can never be praised enough”). By bowing to Protestant demands, the Vatican occupiers fulfill Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The document’s claim that Marian titles might “contradict” her subordinate role directly attacks the dogma defined at the Council of Ephesus (431 AD) that Mary is truly Theotokos (God-bearer).

“The Church does not hesitate to profess this subordinate role of Mary.”

This carefully edited quote from Vatican II’s Lament Gentium disguises the conciliar sect’s doctrinal collapse. Contrast this with St. Pius X’s encyclical Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum: “Mary suffered and almost died with her suffering Son… she abdicated the rights of a mother toward her Son and immolated Him to satisfy divine justice.” The Vatican occupiers now deem such magisterial language “not appropriate” – a heresy condemned by St. Pius X’s Pascendi as modernist “evolution of dogma.”

Ecumenism as Apostasy

The article revels in Protestant approval of the document, with “pastor” Tom Krattenmaker calling it “extraordinarily helpful for ecumenical dialogue.” This confirms the conciliar sect’s fulfillment of Pius IX’s condemned proposition: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Syllabus, Error 18). The document’s silent omission of Mary’s Corredemptrix role constitutes implicit denial of her cooperation in the objective redemption – a truth affirmed by Leo XIII in Iucunda Semper and Pius XI in Miserentissimus Redemptor.

“Christians will identify her less as a secondary savior but as an exemplary Christian.”

Presbyterian theologian Cynthia Rigby’s reduction of Mary to moral example exposes the document’s naturalistic foundation. True Catholic teaching, as defined by Benedict XV in Inter Sodalicia, holds that Mary “together with Christ redeemed the human race.” By accepting Protestant denials of this dogma, the conciliar sect commits apostasy condemned in Pius XI’s Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority are destroyed.”

Undermining the Economy of Salvation

Theological treason permeates the document’s claim that Marian mediation might “obscure” Christ’s role. This attacks the principle per Mariam ad Jesum (“Through Mary to Jesus”) affirmed by saints from Bernard to Alphonsus Liguori. St. Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion systematically refutes this error: “It is through Mary that salvation began in the world and through Mary that it must be consummated.” The conciliar sect’s position aligns with condemned modernist propositions in Lamentabili Sane: “Divine inspiration does not extend to all Scripture… protected from error” (Error 11).

The document’s focus on “misunderstanding” rather than defending truth reveals its naturalistic hermeneutic. As Pius XII warned in Humani Generis: “Those who expound Scripture… in such a way as to lessen the authority of the Church are condemned.” By surrendering Marian doctrine to Protestant interpretation, the conciliar sect fulfills St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi about modernists making dogma “subject to evolution.”

Silence on the Supernatural Order

Nowhere does the document mention Mary’s Immaculate Conception, Assumption, or mystical mediation of graces – the very foundations justifying traditional titles. This omission exposes the naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Errors 1-7) and Pius X’s Lamentabili (Error 20: “Revelation was man’s self-awareness of relationship to God”). The article’s celebration of Lutheran approval confirms the conciliar sect’s transformation into what St. Pius X called “a new and heretical church.”

The document’s prohibition against Co-Redemptrix constitutes implicit heresy against de fide truths. As the 1917 Code’s Canon 1323 §2 states: “It is forbidden to defend the opinion that the Blessed Virgin Mary… did not take part in the work of redemption.” By equating proper Marian devotion with Christological error, the conciliar sect commits the blasphemy condemned in Leo XIII’s Adiutricem Populi: “To lessen devotion to the Virgin is to diminish the glory of Christ.”

Conclusion: Masonic Subversion Completed

This doctrinal note completes the masonic project described in the Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can reconcile himself with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). By discarding titles developed over centuries of magisterial teaching and saintly devotion, the conciliar sect proves itself the “synagogue of Satan” Pius IX denounced. True Catholics recognize this document as what Pius X called in Pascendi “the synthesis of all heresies” – demanding total resistance as per Canon 1325’s requirement to “shun errors contrary to Catholic faith.”


Source:
Some Protestant scholars welcome Vatican document clarifying Marian titles
  (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.12.2025

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