Portal Catholic News Agency reports on November 4, 2025 that the “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith” under “Cardinal” Víctor Manuel Fernández has issued a document Mater Populi Fidelis rejecting the Marian titles “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of All Graces.” The document claims these titles risk “eclipsing the exclusive role of Jesus Christ” and cites concerns about “confusion among Catholics” from social media-driven Marian devotions. Signed by the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV, the text promotes “ecumenical effort” while discouraging traditional expressions of Marian piety under the guise of preserving “Catholic identity.” This attack on Marian doctrine constitutes a direct assault on the Church’s immutable teaching about the Blessed Virgin Mary’s unique cooperation in the work of redemption.
Theological Sabotage of Mary’s Singular Cooperation in Redemption
The conciliar sect’s assault on the title Co-Redemptrix constitutes a rejection of Mary’s singular participation (St. Pius X, Ad Diem Illum) in the economy of salvation. The document’s claim that this title “carries the risk of eclipsing the exclusive role of Jesus Christ” operates on the heretical presupposition that affirming Mary’s subordinate cooperation diminishes Christ’s unique mediation. This directly contradicts Pius XII’s teaching in Mystici Corporis (1943): “She it was who offered Him on Golgotha to the Eternal Father together with the holocaust of her maternal rights and motherly love.” The Dicastery commits theological treason by ignoring the distinction between Christ’s principal causality and Mary’s instrumental causality – a distinction maintained by St. Bernardine of Siena, St. Alphonsus Liguori, and approved papal magisterium for centuries.
Fernández’s assertion that expressions requiring frequent explanation become “unhelpful” reveals the anti-intellectual core of modernism. The Church has always employed precise theological language to safeguard mysteries – from Theotokos at Ephesus to Transubstantiation at Trent. To abandon terminology because it demands catechism constitutes surrender to the “false philosophy” condemned in Pius X’s Pascendi (1907). The document’s recommendation to replace traditional titles with generic motherhood references (“Mother of the Faithful People of God”) degrades Mariology to naturalistic sentimentality, stripping it of supernatural content.
Ecumenical Betrayal Masquerading as Doctrinal Prudence
The admission that this attack serves “a particular ecumenical effort” exposes the conciliar sect’s true motivation: sacrificing Catholic truth to appease Protestant heretics. The Second Council of Lyons (1274) and Council of Florence (1439) defined that “no one remaining outside the Catholic Church… can become partakers of eternal life.” Leo XIII’s Satis Cognitum (1896) reiterated: “The Church alone offers to the human race that religion… which is the truth itself.” By contrast, the “DDF” document treats Protestant objections as normative, implementing the condemned error of religious indifferentism from Vatican II’s Unitatis Redintegratio.
The document’s claim that Mary was saved “in a particular and anticipatory way” distorts the Immaculate Conception dogma. Pius IX’s Ineffabilis Deus (1854) definitively declared she was “preserved immune from all stain of original guilt” – preserved, not redeemed like other humans. This novel phrasing suggests Mary needed ordinary redemption, aligning with Luther’s heresy condemned in the Council of Trent’s Decree on Original Sin.
Systematic Dismantling of the Communion of Saints
By rejecting the title “Mediatrix of All Graces,” the conciliar sect denies the foundational principle that “God does not give a single grace to men except through Mary” (St. Bernard). Pius IX’s encyclical Ubi Primum (1849) affirmed: “All graces come from God to us through the hands of Mary.” The document’s reduction of Mary’s mediation to mere intercession ignores Boniface VIII’s teaching in Unam Sanctam (1302) about the hierarchic structure of the Mystical Body, where saints participate in Christ’s mediation according to their dignity.
The warning against attributing “active roles… parallel to those of Christ” constitutes a strawman fallacy. No orthodox theologian ever posited Mary as parallel to Christ – only as the New Eve whose fiat made her “the minister and author of salvation” (Leo XIII, Iucunda Semper). This deliberate misrepresentation continues Paul VI’s suppression of the title “Mediatrix” in Marialis Cultus (1974), revealing the modernist antipathy toward supernatural cooperation in salvation.
Linguistic Warfare Against Catholic Piety
The document’s condemnation of devotions spreading through “social media” exposes the conciliar sect’s hatred for grassroots Catholic piety. Contrast this with Pius XII’s encouragement in Mediator Dei (1947): “The Church favors every good work… which aims at spreading private and public devotion to the Blessed Virgin.” Fernández’s dismissal of “intensely” expressed Marian devotion as potentially “confusing” constitutes elitist contempt for the sensus fidelium, which Vatican I’s Pastor Aeternus recognized as an authentic witness to Tradition.
The replacement theology promoting “Mother of the Faithful People of God” invents novel terminology absent from Scripture and Tradition. This echoes the modernist tendency condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili (Propositions 22, 58) to refashion dogmas according to contemporary sensibilities. The conciliar sect thus implements the very “evolution of dogma” heresy that St. Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies.”
Continuation of Conciliar Apostasy
This assault on Marian doctrine flows inexorably from Vatican II’s naturalistic ecclesiology. When the conciliar sect declared in Lumen Gentium (8) that the Church of Christ merely “subsists in” the Catholic Church rather than is the Catholic Church, it destroyed the theological foundation for Mary’s unique mediation. For if the Church isn’t the exclusive ark of salvation, neither can Mary be the exclusive channel of grace. The document’s refusal to acknowledge Mary’s active role in redemption constitutes the logical fruit of the conciliar revolution’s denial of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus.
The usurper “Pope” Leo XIV’s approval of this document confirms his apostate lineage from John XXIII onward. As Pius XII warned in Humani Generis (1950): “These enemies of Christ… cloak their thoughts in wise language to insinuate their poison.” By denying Mary’s titles that underscore her cooperation in redemption, the conciliar sect completes its rejection of the Church as supernatural society – reducing Christianity to a humanistic welfare organization where saints become inspirational figures rather than heavenly intercessors.
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Vatican nixes use of ‘Co-Redemptrix,’ ‘Mediatrix’ as titles for Mary (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 04.11.2025