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A NEW MARIAN DOGMA?

A number of indications suggest John Paul II is preparing, before the year 2000, to promulgate a new dogma: the Virgin Mary as "Coredemptrix" (cont.)

Many of the signatures come from countries such as Mexico, the Philippines, India and Nigeria. This strong support for the movement coming from Asia, Latin America and Africa is important. These are areas where a new, vibrant orthodox Catholicism is on the rise -- a Catholicism unashamed to lavish praise on Mary that would cause a more tepid Anglo-Saxon to blush. It may be that here we are witnessing the future of the Church, the beginnings of the new springtime which Pope John Paul II has so often spoken. There can be no supernatural spring without a love for the Mother God.

But what would the new dogma mean? Can it be proved to belong to the Deposit of Faith handed down from the Apostles? What would be impact on ecumenism? Over the two days of the conference, series of theologians, philosophers and Church leaders addressed these questions. Miravalle himself, the President of Vox Populi, described the history of the moves to obtain a papal definition for Mary Mediatrix, which go back a long way beyond the three years during which the petition has been circulated -- from the prophetic call of St. Louis-Marie Grignon Montfort (for an age when the faithful would have such a love of Mary that the Holy Spirit would descend into their hearts in miraculous abundance) to the Marian inspiration of St. Maximilian Kolbe in our own century. A long series of Marian Popes have prepared the ground for the proposed definition, from Plus IX to our own John Paul II.

The definition, whose theological content but not actual formulation is suggested by the terms "Coredemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate," would simply mean acknowledging in a formal way the implications of the new title given to Mary by Pope Paul VI and the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s: Mother of the Church. The spiritual maternity of Mary means that she is God’s chosen instrument for bringing into the world every divine grace, just as she brings into the world the one Source of that grace, Jesus Christ the Son of God. Whereas Jesus is the one and only Redeemer of the world, she cooperates in the Redemption ("Coredemptrix"), not only by her fiat, her consent to bear the Son of God, but also by her fiat, her consent to his sacrifice on the Cross-- a consent that joins her own spiritual suffering with his in the “labour" that brings the Church to birth. Her role as Advocate(united as she is with the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete) is perfectly demonstrated by her actions at the wedding in Cana, as well as by her traditional role as the Queen of the saints who intercede for us before the throne of God.

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