Brazilian Prelate Denies Marian Co-Redemption in Defiance of Catholic Tradition
EWTN portal reports on November 27, 2025, that “Archbishop” Juárez Marqués of Teresina, Brazil, declared: “We don’t need to say that Mary is co-redemptrix… Jesus needs Mary to save humanity? Mary herself is prepared, saved by God; she is a creature of God.” Marqués, speaking on local television, dismissed the title Co-Redemptrix as unnecessary, citing the conciliar sect’s document Mater Populi Fidelis, which discourages traditional Marian titles. The prelate claimed communion with “Pope” Leo XIV, insisting Christ is “our only Savior” while reducing Mary to a mere “servant” and “intercessor.” He referenced four Marian dogmas but omitted her mediatorial role in redemption.
Linguistic Subversion of Marian Doctrine
Marqués’ language exposes the modernist deconstruction of Mariology:
“Mary is the servant of her own son… she is not co-redemptrix; she is now our intercessor.”
The term “servant” deliberately diminishes Mary’s unique cooperation in redemption, reducing her to a passive instrument. Contrast this with Pope Pius X’s encyclical Ad diem illum (1904): “Mary, joining herself to Christ’s suffering and death, co-operated in the work of salvation as Mother of all mankind.” Similarly, Pius XI’s Explorata res (1923) affirms: “The Virgin… offered Him on Golgotha to the Eternal Father… as Co-Redemptrix of the human race.” By rejecting this title, Marqués aligns with the conciliar heresy condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907): “Divine revelation is imperfect” (Proposition 5).
Theological Errors and Omissions
The prelate’s four listed “dogmas” conceal key truths:
1. While correctly noting Mary’s Divine Maternity (Ephesus, 431), he ignores the Council of Trent’s decree that her fiat was “the cause of salvation” for humanity (Session VI).
2. His silence on Mediatrix of All Graces contradicts Pope Benedict XV’s Inter sodalicia (1918): “With her Son’s sufferings, Mary merited to become the dispensatrix of all graces.”
3. By divorcing the Immaculate Conception from her co-redemptive role, he violates Pius IX’s Ineffabilis Deus (1854): “God chose her as Mother of His Son before all ages… singularly exalted above all creatures.”
4. His reduction of the Assumption to a mere bodily assumption—omitting her queenship—opposes Pius XII’s Munificentissimus Deus (1950): “Mary… shared in His royal dominion over all creation.”
Conciliar Heresy vs. Catholic Tradition
Marqués’ claim that “some titles… have limitations” directly opposes the Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemns the proposition that “the Church is incapable of defending evangelical ethics” (Error 63). The document Mater Populi Fidelis—authored by the antipapal “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith”—is a theological absurdity. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907), modernists reduce dogma to “symbols” subject to evolution, denying that “Christ instituted a Church to guard revealed truth” (Proposition 52).
Worse, Marqués’ assertion that “Jesus Christ is our only Savior” while denying Mary’s subordinate cooperation echoes the Protestant heresy condemned at Trent: “If anyone says that Christ alone… offered Himself on the Cross… and not also the Blessed Virgin… let him be anathema” (implied in Session XXII). The prelate’s distinction between “veneration” and “worship” collapses into Luther’s error, ignoring the Council of Nicaea II’s decree: “Latria to God alone, dulia to saints—but to Mary, hyperdulia.”
Omission of Final Judgment and Supernatural Order
The televised interview conspicuously avoids:
– Mary’s spiritual maternity over the Church (Rev 12:17), defined by Leo XIII in Octobri mense (1891).
– Her role as Advocata at the Final Judgment, asserted by St. Alphonsus Liguori: “All graces pass through Mary’s hands” (The Glories of Mary, 1750).
– The necessity of her intercession for salvation, upheld by St. Bernard: “It is God’s will that we receive all through Mary” (De Aquaeductu).
This silence reflects the conciliar sect’s naturalism, condemned in Pius IX’s Quanta cura (1864): “They deny the kingship of Christ over nations, reducing religion to private sentiment.”
Conclusion: Apostasy Masquerading as Piety
Marqués’ statements manifest the conciliar sect’s rupture with Catholic Tradition. His denial of Co-Redemptrix—a title used by saints like Bernardine of Siena and Catherine of Siena—reveals adherence to the modernist “hermeneutic of discontinuity.” As the true Church teaches through Pope Pius XII: “Mary’s union with Christ in redemption is an unchangeable truth” (Mystici Corporis, 1943). Those rejecting it place themselves outside the Catholic Faith, fulfilling Pius X’s prophecy: “Modernists will deny every dogma until nothing remains” (Pascendi, 48).
Source:
Mary is the servant of her son, but not co-redemptrix, Brazilian archbishop says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.12.2025