All Graces

[badsede]

I'm sure that many of you have heard the news that 5 cardinals have petitioned the Pope to make an ex cathedra pronouncement declaring a fifth Marian dogma, that Mary is Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces.

annabellissima and I spent yestserday evening doing a bunch of web-reading on the subject. We're both ok with the title of Co-Redemptrix when

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[canonfire]

I remember when Pope John Paul II was shopping this idea around and the rumor was that his theologians told him that basically this wasn't going to be a popular idea.

The way that you phrase the two major points means that, at least according to you, I understood it properly when I first heard it. Yes, I can understand the argument that "technically", Mary is Co-Redemptrix. And what about John the Baptizer's critical role in the Ministry of Jesus, linking the prophecy of the Old Covenant to the coming of the New? Does not he hold a Co-Redemptor status with heralding the coming of the Kingdom and baptizing Jesus? Is that not "technically", then, as well?

Also, I agree that there is a problem of Mariolatry and JPII did nothing to help that. I find the dogma a slippery slope. Perhaps it is my Protestantism, but with such beliefs as the Ascension, I find that certain popes have gone too far.

I don't think that Benedict XVI is going to accept this one. He has more practical fish to fry, he understands his tenure will be shorter and that his role is not to make any major waves. He said he took the name "Benedict" to exemplify that.