Portal Catholic News Agency reports that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández has condemned the Marian title “Co-Redemptrix” in the document Mater Populi Fidelis, approved by antipope Leo XIV. The text claims this ancient title “carries the risk of eclipsing the exclusive role of Jesus Christ” and discourages its use in favor of supposedly “safer” expressions like “Mother of the Faithful People of God.” This assault on Marian doctrine exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic dismantling of Catholic truth.
Doctrinal Erosion Through Linguistic Manipulation
The document’s argument against “Co-Redemptrix” hinges on modernist sophistry:
“when an expression requires frequent explanation to maintain the correct meaning, it becomes unhelpful.”
This relativistic criterion would condemn homoousios (consubstantial) from Nicaea, Theotokos (God-bearer) from Ephesus, and every dogmatic formulation that required precise theological defense against heresy. The Church has always used precise language to safeguard mysteries beyond natural comprehension, as Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to a continual and indefinite progress, corresponding with the advancement of human reason” (Error 5).
Fernández’s claim that Marian maximalism creates “confusion among Catholics” through social media inverts reality. The true confusion stems from the conciliar sect’s 60-year project of doctrinal ambiguity, where phrases like “subsists in” (Lumen Gentium 8) intentionally obscure the Church’s identity. When the document states “Mary’s incomparable greatness lies in what she has received,” it employs a Protestantizing minimalism that denies her active cooperation in redemption – a truth witnessed by saints from Irenaeus to Pius XII.
Ecumenical Betrayal Masquerading as “Fidelity”
The text reveals its core motivation in Fernández’s preface:
“This entails a profound fidelity to Catholic identity while also requiring a particular ecumenical effort.”
This oxymoron exposes the conciliar sect’s fundamental error: attempting to reconcile irreconcilables. The document admits rejecting “Mediatrix of All Graces” because it has “limits that do not favor a correct understanding” – meaning it offends Protestants. Yet Pius XII’s 1942 radio message explicitly called Mary “Mediatrix of all graces,” while Leo XIII’s Iucunda Semper (1894) taught: “The recourse we have to Mary in prayer follows upon the office she continuously fills by side of the throne of God as Mediatrix of Divine grace.”
This capitulation to heretical sensibilities constitutes apostasy from extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church). The Syllabus condemned precisely this error: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Error 18). By demoting Mary’s titles to appease schismatics, the Vatican occupiers confirm they serve the “abomination of desolation” (Dan 9:27) rather than Catholic truth.
Illegitimate Authority Condemning Catholic Piety
Cardinal Fernández’s dismissal of online defenders as “maximalists” echoes Modernist contempt for sensus fidelium. When confronted at the presentation by a layman defending the title, Fernández retorted: “You are not the people,” exposing the conciliar sect’s authoritarianism. Yet St. Pius X’s Lamentabili condemned the proposition that “Ecclesiastical judgments and censures imposed for too free and explicit exegesis prove that the faith of the Church is contrary to history” (Error 3).
The document’s insistence that “Mary was saved by her son, Jesus Christ, in a particular and anticipatory way” distorts her Immaculate Conception into a proto-Protestant “sola gratia” narrative. True Catholic teaching, as defined by Pius IX in Ineffabilis Deus (1854), holds Mary was preserved from original sin from conception – not “saved” in the manner of fallen humanity. This careful sabotage of Marian doctrine flows from the same Modernist poison condemned by St. Pius X: “In many narratives, the Evangelists did not report what actually happened, but what they thought would be of greater benefit to the recipients, even if it were false” (Lamentabili, Error 14).
Sacred Tradition Versus Conciliar Revolution
The rejected title “Co-Redemptrix” enjoys centuries of theological support. St. Bernardino of Siena preached: “All graces that are communicated to this world have a threefold course. For they are dispensed from Christ to the Blessed Virgin, from the Virgin to the Angels, and from the Angels to men” (Sermon 5 on the Nativity). Pius XI’s 1934 letter for the Redemptorist Jubilee praised Mary as “Reparatrix,” while Ven. Pius XII’s 1950 radio message called her “Administrator and Mediatrix of grace.”
By contrast, the conciliar sect’s document reduces Our Lady to passive recipient rather than active participant in redemption. This aligns with their naturalistic Christology evident in the Novus Ordo’s elimination of sacrificial language. The true Church teaches with Pius XI: “Christ reigns in the wills of men… because He inclines our free will and conquers it with His inspiration” (Quas Primas 15), whereas the Vatican occupiers reduce redemption to a divine monologue rather than a nuptial collaboration with the New Eve.
The suppression of “Co-Redemptrix” serves the conciliar sect’s ultimate goal: erasing the supernatural order to create a humanitarian religion. As the crowds at Fatima were manipulated by “mass optical phenomena” (False Fatima Apparitions FILE), today’s Catholics are told to abandon doctrinal precision for ecumenical expediency. Let true faithful recall St. Pius X’s warning: “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is usually called Agnosticism” (Pascendi 6). By denying Mary’s co-redemptive role, the Vatican revolutionaries confirm their apostasy from Catholic truth.
Source:
Vatican nixes use of ‘Co-Redemptrix’ as title for Mary (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 04.11.2025