Some Notes on Cardinal Fernández’s Mariology: “Ignorance of Scripture is Ignorance of Christ”[1]

Some Notes on Cardinal Fernández’s Mariology: “Ignorance of Scripture is Ignorance of Christ”[1]

 

A guest article by a priest who writes under the name Fr. Romano Tommasi.

 

The current prefect of the formerly known Roman Inquisition (Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith) has publicly highlighted his biblical studies and promoted his reputation as an academic, based upon his asserted thesis work at the Gregorian University.

Is Mary Co-redemptrix? Guest article by theologian Antonio Francés

As is well known, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith recently published the document Mater populi fidelis. It states that “it is always inappropriate to use the title ‘Co-redemptrix’ to define Mary’s cooperation” (n. 22, italics in the original). The reasons given in numbers 17-22, however, are quite inadequate. They are limited, in short, to affirming that Christ has a unique place in Redemption and that “reverent caution [is needed] whenever proposing any form of possible cooperation with him in the realm of Redemption” (n. 20). In other words, the core of the reasons is the denial that there is any participation in the redemptive work. Paragraph 22 gives another reason: “When an expression requires many, repeated explanations to prevent it from straying from a correct meaning, it does not serve the faith of the People of God and becomes unhelpful.”