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[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

JUST IN: Cardinal Zen calls for Pope Leo to remove Cardinal Grech, Cardinal Hollerich & Cardinal Fernández from their roles

He also urges Pope Leo to put an end to the Synod in Synodality & its follow up stages

“If we now seek to accommodate the world, we betray our own mission,” he says re the Synod

[Edward Pentin @EdwardPentin]

Marian Theologians Renew Appeal to Cardinal Fernández Over Vatican Doctrinal Note

A year after the publication of Mater Populi Fidelis, the International Marian Association says its detailed criticisms remain unanswered.

https://t.co/oRwQnRzRNI

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

1yr ago today, Cardinal Fernández published Mater Populi Fidelis which argued ––

“Given the necessity of explaining Mary’s subordinate role to Christ in the work of Redemption, it is always appropriate to use the title Co-redemptrix to define Mary’s cooperation.”

Since then, numerous Mariologists and leading prelates have defended the ancient title.

Most recently, Fernández's predecessor at the CDF, Cardinal Müller, did so at a high-profile conference by the Vatican, saying ––

“Therefore, when Mary is called Co-Redemptrix in Catholic piety and theology, this is neither a misleading attribution nor an enthusiastic exaggeration, but a truth objectively contained in revelation.” {Full conference details & texts on @PerMariam}

Contrary to the aims of MPF, the past year has seen discussion & defence of the title “Co-Redemptrix” reach new heights, with the document arguably undermining itself.

Indeed, referencing the text's preparation, CDF official Fr Gronchi told EWTN last yr that “no collaborating Mariologists could be found” – an unprecedented move which he said “can be understood as dissent” with MPF.

[Fr. Paolo D'Angona @RomanoSace57080]

The month of November is dedicated to the Souls in Purgatory. "There is a Purgatory, (...) the Souls there detained are helped by the suffrages of the faithful, but principally by the (...) Sacrifice of the altar" (Council of Trent).

[Per Mariam @PerMariam]

Bishop Eleganti: The ban on the Latin Mass pilgrimage “borders on hostility toward Catholics loyal to the Pope and orthodox in their faith, and has nothing to do with concern for unity in the Church or with operational difficulties in organizing liturgical celebrations in St. Peter’s Basilica.”
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[Per Mariam @PerMariam]

The president of the organising body of the annual Latin Mass pilgrimage to Rome has rejected false accusations against the event.

Full English statement here.

https://t.co/dQxkh9ivNT

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

Archbishop Cordileone offered Mass for the Latin Mass pilgrimage "Three Hearts" this wknd

He warned that attacks on marriage are fuelled by atheism ––

“This marginalizing of God from public life is happening in our midst – yes, in some more explicit ways – but most alarmingly by the destruction of marriage.

“By wiping out the basic idea of marriage as the life-long and life-giving one-flesh communion of man and woman in a covenantal relationship, the image of God is wiped out from the face of the earth.”

[Per Mariam @PerMariam]

The appointment of new members to a key Vatican theological body highlights the chaotic state of the Church, as some of the theologians hare directly argued against the Vatican office which they are now a part of.

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[Fr Lawrence Lew, O.P. @LawrenceOP]

From my Homily for St Frideswide's day (19 October):
"Today’s saint is very much a part of that first flourishing of the Faith in Anglo-Saxon England. She was a princess of Wessex in the kingdom of Mercia, and her name is probably pronounced Frithuswith (rather than Frideswide), and she was born c.650. Like quite few other royal women of her age, she became abbess of a monastery she had founded with her parents’ help in Oxford, on the site that is now called Christ Church Cathedral. This suggests to me the close links between the Church and the political rulers of the time. But after the death of her parents, King Aethelbald of Mercia sought to marry her, disregarding her vow of celbacy. When she refused, he tried to abduct her so she fled to Bampton and then to Binsey. Aethelbald is thwarted when he is struck blind by God so he gives up. But a well springs up in Binsey, and people go to Frithuswith for prayers and healing, and she later returns to Oxford to her monastery where she was buried after her death on this day in 727. Later on, in the 1440s, some 200 years after the Dominicans first arrived in Oxford. St Frideswide’s relics are still somewhere around Christ Church Cathedral but they had been scattered after the Reformation and so they’re not possible to locate, but we I always try to visit the location of her medieval shrine, often bringing visiting friars and friends to go there and to seek her intercession."
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📷 The reconstructed shrine of St Frideswide in Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; her relics have not been found but are believed to be in the grounds of the cathedral.

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

JUST IN: Vatican issues images of Pope Leo offering Mass today, as doctors report his continued improvement.

The Pope celebrated Mass in the hospital at noon, in the presence of medics & nursing staff from the hospital & members of the Vatican City State Gendarmerie.

"In his homily, the Pope thanked all the staff –doctors, nurses, and orderlies – for the work they do every day in caring for the sick and their frailty, and, in particular, for what they have done and continue to do for him."

Also, today he performed blood tests & another chest X-ray.

These “confirmed the continued improvement in his overall condition.”

“Respiratory physical therapy sessions have continued,” doctors said.

“His post-operative recovery allows him to carry out his normal daily activities completely independently.”

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

NEW: Following the revelation of his lung cancer diagnosis last night, Pope Leo's doctors have issued brief details of his recovery today ---

“This morning, the Holy Father underwent the blood tests and chest X-ray scheduled following the surgery.
The results confirm a normal postoperative course: the values are within the normal range for the type of surgery performed.
The Holy Father underwent respiratory physical therapy and has begun walking around his room. He has resumed a regular diet, having had breakfast and lunch.
His recovery is proceeding as expected.”

[Per Mariam @PerMariam]

According to the Vatican, the Pope’s 90-minute surgery on Tuesday afternoon was successful and completed on schedule with no complications.

https://t.co/SvaUR0YKwv

[Fr Thomas Crean OP @crean_fr]

My talk at the recent Mariological conference in Rome.
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[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

JUST IN: Pope Leo has named Archbishop Viola as Archpriest of the Vatican & Vicar General of the Vatican City State

Viola was formerly secretary of the Dicastery for Divine Worship & is understood as a staunch opponent of the traditional Mass

He is believed to be a key driving force behind Latin Mass restrictions

Time will now tell if he eases the restrictions on private Masses in the Vatican or keeps them in place, along with the existing permission for a very limited number of traditional Masses daily

[Per Mariam @PerMariam]

Cardinal Müller ––

Therefore, when Mary is called “Co-Redemptrix” in Catholic piety and theology, this is neither a misleading attribution nor an enthusiastic exaggeration, but a truth objectively contained in revelation.

Full speech on @PerMariam

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

NEW: Cardinal Müller also defends Mary as Co-Redemptrix

Mary’s role as Co-Redemptrix is ‘a truth objectively contained in revelation’

He joins Cdl Burke & nearly the entire Mariology conference (held next to the Vatican) in directly affirming traditional teaching on co-redemption

Müller (former CDF prefect) also rejects arguments made last year by Cardinal Fernández against the title: “Anyone familiar with the principles of Catholic theology, therefore, can find no cause for scandal” with such terms, he said.

Full speech on @PerMariam
Report from conference coming @CatholicHerald

[Per Mariam @PerMariam]

Full text of Cardinal Burke's conference defending traditional teaching on Co-Redemptrix ---

https://t.co/OjrDxhvPG0

[Edward Pentin @EdwardPentin]

On the first day of the ‘De Maria numquam satis’ (“Of Mary, one can never say enough”) conference at the Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome, the major dogmatic issues underpinning the veneration of the Mother of God were discussed, with particular emphasis on her cooperation in salvation.

Cardinal Raymond Burke opened the conference with a talk on ‘Our Lady of Guadalupe and the Reign of Christ the King: The Mission of the Co-Redemptrix and the Co-Redeemers’.

The cardinal emphasised that the event at Guadalupe in 1531 is not merely a local devotion, but a manifestation of Christ’s kingship which restores the proper created order. He then explored in depth the central theme of human cooperation in the Redemption. The absolute beginning and perfect model of this cooperation is the Virgin Mother, who, having participated in a wholly unique way in the mystery of the Incarnation and the Passion, is rightly called the Co-Redemptrix. Consequently, by uniting their own daily crosses with that of the Saviour, all the baptised are called to become co-redeemers.

Prof. Rev. Manfred Hauke spoke on ‘The Divine Motherhood of Mary: The Dogma of Ephesus and Its Significance’, refuting nineteenth-century historical theories that reduced the dogma to a syncretism with the pagan cults of Artemis or Isis. Hauke demonstrated the solid biblical and patristic foundation of the Theotokos, recalling that the Incarnation requires the active cooperation of the creature and that Mary expressed her consent at the Annunciation on behalf of the whole of human nature.

The morning session was brought to a close by Father Wojciech Giertych, OP, with a paper on ‘The Primacy of Virginal Love within Mary’s Maternal Love’. The Theologian of the Papal Household outlined a profound emotional and spiritual distinction between virginal love — characterized by awe, veneration and a total absence of possessiveness — and maternal love. The latter, if left unpurified, risks degenerating into selfish attachment, whereas in Mary the two dimensions merge perfectly, offering the Church the perfect model of spiritual fruitfulness that springs from grace and charity.

In the afternoon, following the recitation of the Holy Rosary and Eucharistic Adoration at the nearby Basilica of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, the proceedings of the second session resumed in the auditorium of the Augustinianum.

Slovakian theologian Fr Ľubomír Urbančok presented ‘The Contribution of the Roman Theological School to the Definition of the Immaculate Conception’, demonstrating how the theologians Giovanni Perrone and Carlo Passaglia provided Pius IX with the framework for dogmatic development, starting from the factum Ecclesiae — that is, from the living faith of the Church.

Subsequently, Fr Joseph Hamilton addressed the topic ‘From the Dormition to the Assumption: Mary’s Eschatological Fulfilment in Eastern Apocryphal and Patristic Sources’, analysing Eastern texts on the Dormition and highlighting how the bodily Assumption of the Virgin represents the anthropological antidote par excellence against the disembodied excesses of transhumanism and artificial intelligence.

Finally, Mgr Rudolf Michael Schmitz presented a paper entitled ‘The Virgin Mary in the Sphere of the Incarnation’. Through a rigorous systematic exposition in ten theses, Mgr Schmitz clarified that Mary belongs to the hypostatic order “terminatively” and not formally: whilst remaining a creature and without multiplying the personal union in Christ, she constitutes the created point at which the Incarnation touches humanity, thereby indissolubly linking Mariology to Christology and ecclesiology.

The proceedings will resume tomorrow morningwith a session dedicated to ‘Mary in Worship, Devotion and History’. The organisers say over 400 scholars, religious and laypeople from all over the world are attending the conference.

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

Short summaries of the talks from the first day of the international Mariological conference on @PerMariam

Tomorrow's talks include Cardinal Müller on Mary's role in the redemption – a theme which has already emerged numerous times in many talks today.

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

Cardinal Burke launches the De Maria numquam satis Mariology conference in Rome this morning, on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

He defends the title of Mary as Co-Redemptrix during his keynote speech.

Cdl. Burke notes that if Mary can't be called Co-Redmptrix then Christians can't be called God's coadjutors, as St Paul teaches we are (1 Cor 3:9 & Colossians 1:24)

Numerous cardinals have sent messages of support or greeting to conference, including Cardinal Fernández – the author of Mater Populi Fidelis

Live updates on @PerMariam
Full day’s summary coming later @CatholicHerald

[Per Mariam @PerMariam]

Live updates on @PerMariam from the Mariology conference being held in Rome, looking at numerous elements of Marian theology – including Co-Redemptrix.

Read here --
https://t.co/WvKzx0dDvO