Ecce Mater Tua Vol. 1

Ecce Mater Tua A Journal of Mariology VOL. 1 January 1, 2018 Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God Editorial Board Editor Dr. Mark Miravalle, S.T.D. Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio Associate Editor Mr. Kevin Clarke, Ph.D. (cand.) Ave Maria University, Florida Advisory Board Msgr. Arthur Calkins, S.T.D. Vatican Ecclesia Dei, Emeritus Fr. Giles Dimock, O.P., S.T.D. Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Emeritus Robert Fastiggi, S.T.D. Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Michigan Fr. Peter D. Fehlner, O.F.M. Conv. Ellicott City, Maryland Dr. Luis Bejar Fuentes Independent Editor and Journalist Mr. Daniel Garland, Jr., Ph.D. (cand.) Institute for Catholic Culture Scott Hahn, Ph.D. Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio Dr. Stephen Miletic Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio Christopher Malloy, Ph.D. University of Dallas, Texas John-Mark Miravalle, S.T.D. Mount St. Mary’s Seminary, Maryland Petroc Willey, Ph.D. Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio ii Ecce Mater Tua iii Ecce Mater Tua: A Journal of Mariology ISSN: 2573-5799 Instructions for Authors: To submit a paper for consideration, please first make sure that all personal references are stripped from the text and file properties, then email the document in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx) or in rich-text format (.rtf) to [email protected]. To ensure a smooth editorial process, please include a 250-350 word abstract at the beginning of the article, and be sure that formatting follows Chicago style. Ecce Mater Tua practices blind review. Submissions are evaluated anonymously by members of the editorial board and other scholars with appropriate expertise. Name, affiliation, and contact information should be included on a separate page apart from the submission. Please also submit a cover letter briefly describing the significance of the contribution. 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Table of Contents January 1, 2018 Ecce Mater Tua, vol. 1 Solemnity of the Mother of God ISSN: 2573-5799 Editorial Board ....................................................................................................................... ii Table of Contents .................................................................................................................. v Documents International Marian Association Letter to Cardinal Mueller ........................................ 3 The Role of Mary in Redemption ..................................................................................... 23 Letter of Dr. Robert Fastiggi in Response to the Cardinal Mueller Report .............. 39 A Response to the Declaration of the Commission of the Pontifical International Marian Academy, MSGR. ARTHUR B. CALKINS ..................................................... 49 Essays On the Fittingness of the Title Mediatrix of All Graces as applied to the Blessed Virgin Mary, MELISSA EITENMILLER ...................................................................... 65 María Corredentora: Explicación y Conveniencia de su Proclamación Dogmática, AGUSTÍN GIMÉNEZ .................................................................................................. 119 Catechetical Thinking in the Face of Critical Theory: Developing a Marian Understanding, PETROC WILLEY ........................................................................... 133 Woman, Motherhood, the Family, and the Mother of All Peoples, MARK MIRAVALLE................................................................................................................. 149 Translations Coredemption, JEAN GALOT, S.J. ................................................................................... 171 The Co-redeeming Mediation of Christians, the Church, the Virgin, CHARLES CARDINAL JOURNET ................................................................................................. 181 v Documents 1 International Marian Association Letter to Cardinal Mueller 31 May 2017 Eminence, Gerhard Cardinal Müller Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine on Faith Piazza del S. Uffizio, 11 00193 Roma, Italy Your Eminence: We, Executive Members of the International Marian Association, which consti- tutes over 100 theologians, cardinals, bishops, clergy, religious and lay leaders from 5 continents, wish to, first of all, thank you for the many excellent and courageous articulations and defenses of our holy Catholic Faith, as contained in your recently released, The Cardinal Müller Report. At the same time, we are obliged to express to you our grave concern regarding your comment from the text when you state: “(for example, the Church … does not call her [Mary] “co-redeemer,” because the only Redeemer is Christ, and she herself has been redeemed sublimiore modo, as Lumen Gentium [n. 53] says, and serves this redemption wrought exclusively by Christ… (p. 133). You unfortunately refer to this term as an example of false exaggeration: “falsely exaggerating per excessum, attributing to the Virgin what is not attributable to her” (Ibid.). Your Eminence, in making this statement, albeit as a private theologian since a public interview carries no authoritative or magisterial status, you have publicly stated: 1) a theologically and historically erroneous position, since the Church undeni- ably has and does call Mary a co-redeemer; and 2) a position which, in itself, materially dissents from the repeated and authoritative teachings of the Papal Magisterium, the historical teachings from your own Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith (Holy Office)and other Vatican Congregations; the pre- and post-conciliar teachings of the Magisterium as expressed through numerous cardinals, bishops and national episcopal conferences; teachings of the broader Church, inclusive of multiple can- onized saints and blessed who all do, in fact, assent to and theologically expand upon the authentic Magisterial teachings of the Church concerning Mary as a co- redeemer. 3 4 Ecce Mater Tua For clear and undeniable manifestations of the Church’s repeated teachings of the Papal Magisterium on the doctrine of Marian Coredemption and uses of the term, “Co-redemptrix,” we cite the following examples: a. The pontificate of Pope St. Pius X, during which the Congregation of Rites approved a prayer including “Co-redemptrix” (May 13, 1908, ASS, 1, 1908, p. 409); and the Holy Office granting indulgences to prayers calling Mary “Co-redemptrix “(AAS 5, 1913, p. 364; AAS 6, 1914, p. 108). b. The pontificate of Pope Benedict XV, where he teaches in his 1918 apos- tolic letter, Inter Sodalicia: “we may rightly say that Mary redeemed the human together with Christ” (AAS 10, p. 181-2). c. The pontificate of Pius XI, where, on three separate occasions, Pius XI explicitly uses the term, “Co-redemptrix, “ and on one occasion defends the Co-redemptrix title as theologically legitimate in light of Our Lady’s unique role in the Incarnation and the Redemption (L’Osservatore Romano, Dec. 1, 1933; L’Osservatore Romano, March 25, 1934, p. 1; L’Osservatore Romano, April 29- 30, 1935, p. 1). d. The pontificate of Pius XII, who without using the term, teaches the doctrine of Marian Coredemption (Mystici Corporis, 1943, AAS, 35, 1943,p. 247; May 13, 1946, AAS, 38, p. 266; Encyclical, Ad Caeli Reginam, AAS 46, 1954, p. 635. e. Explicit doctrinal treatment of Marian Coredemption in the Second Vatican Council, Lumen Gentium, 58; 61; Also note praenotanda reference of Coredemptrix term as being “absolutely true in itself” (Acta Synodalia Sacrosancti Concilii Oecumenici Vaticani II, Volumen I, Periodus Prima, Pars IV [Vatican City, 1971], p. 99). f. The pontificate of Pope St. John Paul II, during which Pope St. John Paul II explicitly uses the Co-redemptrix term on at least 6 different occasions (cf. Allocution to the Sick, September 8, 1982, Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo II, Vol 3, 1982, 404; General Audience, December 10, 1982, L’Osservatore Ro- mano, English ed., Dec. 18, 1982, p. 2; General Audience, Nov. 4, 1984, L’Osservatore Romano, English ed., Nov. 12, 1984, p. 1; Homily at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Alborada, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Jan. 31, 1985, L’Osservatore Romano, English ed., March 11, 1985; World Youth Day Allocution, May 31, 1985, L’Osservatore Romano, English ed., April 9, 1985, p. 12; Allocution to the Volun- teers for the Sick at Lourdes,

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