Sentimental Mariology Replaces Royal Prerogative: The Conciliar Reduction of Mary’s Queenship to Therapeutic Consolation
The National Catholic Register, organ of the conciliar sect’s “conservative” wing, publishes a commentary by Thomas Griffin, a lay entrepreneur of the “Empty Tomb Project,” for the feast of the Queenship of Mary (observed by the neo-church on August 22). Griffin argues that Mary is not merely a model for imitation but a Queen upon whom we must “rely” for strength, consolation, and a “resilient will,” citing Pius XII’s *Ad Caeli Reginam* (1954) while invoking the late Protestant monarch Elizabeth II as the primary analogue for heavenly queenship. The article exemplifies the conciliar mariology that empties the Queen of Heaven of her doctrinal sovereignty, her universal mediation of grace, and her terrible power against the enemies of God, reducing her to a celestial therapist for broken moderns.