Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces: A Stumbling Block for Modernist Ecumenism

 

Modernist Vatican, with the approval of the incumbent modernist-in-chief, [the Imitator of Leo] call her vaguely ‘Mother of believers’—we, with the Faith of Our Fathers, call her "Mother of our Redemption - Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix of All Graces"

Prologue:

It is no surprise that nothing expressly “Catholic” passes through the fine mesh of the sieve of Modernist Ecumenism as “doctrinal precision” nor “authentic devotion”. 

Guess what a latest news headline reads? Precisely thus:

Mary, mother of Jesus and all believers, is not co-redeemer, Vatican says.

Another reads:

IT'S OFFICIAL: Dear Catholics, Mary is NOT "Mediatrix of All Graces," neither is she "Co-Redemptrix." These are either misleading titles or carry serious theological risks... says the Vatican.

A little more detailed update reads thus:

The Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, has officially clarified that the titles “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of all graces” are not to be used to describe the Blessed Virgin Mary, emphasizing that such expressions risk obscuring the unique and unrepeatable role of Jesus Christ as the world’s sole Redeemer and Mediator. In a new doctrinal note titled Mater Populi Fidelis (The Mother of the Faithful People), the DDF said the term “Co-Redemptrix” is “always inappropriate” because it could confuse the central truth of salvation — that Christ alone redeemed humanity through His death and resurrection. Similarly, the document warns against interpreting “Mediatrix” in a way that would suggest Mary possesses a mediating power independent of Christ. Instead, the Church affirms that her intercession flows entirely from her union with her Son and remains subordinate to His mediation. The note encourages the faithful to honor Mary with titles that highlight her maternal role — such as Mother of God, Mother of the Faithful, and Mother of the Church — which express her singular cooperation in God’s saving plan without diminishing Christ’s preeminence. Quoting from the Second Vatican Council’s Lumen Gentium, the document recalls that Mary’s maternal intercession “neither takes away from nor adds anything to the dignity and efficacy of Christ the one Mediator.” By issuing this clarification, the Vatican seeks to protect doctrinal precision, deepen authentic Marian devotion, and promote ecumenical understanding with other Christian communities that have long viewed such titles as obstacles to unity. “Mary was saved by her Son in a pre-eminent way,” the document states, “and her greatness lies in her faith and cooperation with God’s will — not in any title that could place her on the same level as the Redeemer.”

Yes.  The modern world builds bridges of compromise —but Heaven built only one bridge: the Cross.

And beneath that Cross stands the Woman whom all generations call blessed —Mary, the Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all graces.

To those who dream of an easy “ecumenism,” she is the stone of stumbling.

To the faithful, she is the Gate of Heaven.

The Mother Who Shared the Cross

When the Eternal Word took flesh, He did not come alone.

He took with Him a Mother.

Her Fiat — “Be it done unto me” — was the dawn of our redemption.

The Church Fathers saw this from the beginning:

• St. Irenaeus (2nd century) called her the “cause of salvation for herself and for the whole human race” (Adversus Haereses, V, 19, 1).
• Tertullian wrote, “Eve believed the serpent; Mary believed the angel. The fault which Eve caused by believing, Mary by believing effaced.”
• St. Ephrem the Syrian sang, “With the Mediator, you are the Mediatrix of the whole world.”

At Calvary, she united her suffering with her Son’s sacrifice.

As Pope St. Pius X taught in Ad Diem Illum Laetissimum (1904):

She merited for us congruously, as they say, what Christ merited condignly — and is therefore rightly called Co-Redemptrix.

Thus the Mother’s compassion joined the Son’s passion, and the price of our redemption was offered by both —He as the Redeemer, she as the Co-Redemptrix.

The Channel of Heaven’s Gifts

From the moment she gave birth to the Redeemer, she became also the dispenser of His treasures.

As St. Bernard of Clairvaux preached:

“Such is the will of God, that we should have nothing which does not pass through the hands of Mary.” (Sermon on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin)

And St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church, declared:

“All graces are dispensed by Mary’s hands to those whom she wills, when she wills, and in the manner she wills.” (The Glories of Mary, Part II).

Hence, she is the Mediatrix of all graces —not in competition with Christ, but in perfect union with Him.

As Pope Leo XIII affirmed in Octobri Mense (1891):

“Mary is the intermediary through whom is distributed unto us this immense treasure of mercies gathered by God.”

And Pope Benedict XV, in Inter Sodalicia (1918), solemnly taught:

“She suffered and almost died with her suffering Son; she abdicated her mother’s rights for the salvation of mankind, and as far as it depended on her, she immolated her Son. Therefore, one can rightly say that she redeemed the human race together with Christ.”

One thing is clear: this is no pius exaggeration or "excess"; it is the unanimous voice of Catholic Tradition.

Why Modernists Cannot Bear These Titles

To the Modernist mind, such truths are unbearable.

For Modernism is the religion of tolerance without truth. It wishes to place all faiths on the same level —Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, atheist — all “paths to God.”

Yet Mary, as Co-Redemptrix, proclaims that salvation is not a vague feeling but a bloody victory —and that it was won only on Calvary.

Her very title crushes the false dream of false religious equality.

She stands beside the one Redeemer —not as another way, but as the Mother of the only Way.

Her title Mediatrix of all graces further proclaims that no one comes to the Father except through the Son, and that every grace from the Son reaches us through the Mother.

Such doctrine is intolerable to the Modernist ecumenist who wishes to reduce Mary to a sentimental figure acceptable to all sects.

To them, the Catholic understanding of the Virgin’s motherhood is “foolishness”. The grant a vague title of “Mother of the faithful people of God” -and, anyone with informed Catholic common sense knows exactly what modernists mean by “people of God”!

Yes. By calling the Blessed Virgin Mary “Mother of the People of God,” they subtly dissolve her unique relation to the Mystical Body of Christ — the Catholic Church — and reduce her motherhood to a sentimental, inclusive, ecumenical metaphor: this is a demotion disguised as tenderness.

Well, to us, Mary's Motherhood, with all it's implications, is our life, our sweetness, and our hope.

The Theological Irony

Pre-modernist revolution theology never saw these titles as competition with Christ but as the clearest defense of His unique mediation.

As St. Bernard of Clairvaux explained:

“God willed that we should have everything through Mary.”

To say “through Mary” does not divide the Mediator—it magnifies Him. Just as light through a crystal is not diminished but made visible, so grace through Mary displays the splendor of the Redeemer.

Modernist ecumenism, however, fears clarity; it trades the Queen of Heaven for a vague “mother figure” acceptable to Lutherans, Anglicans, and Muslims alike.

The witness of the Saints admits of no doubts in the matter! Their chorus sounds with a symphonic unity:

• St. Bonaventure: “Every grace that is communicated to this world has a threefold course — from God to Christ, from Christ to the Virgin, and from the Virgin to us.”
• St. Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort: “God has decided to begin and accomplish His greatest works through the Blessed Virgin.” (True Devotion to Mary, §14).
• St. Germanus of Constantinople: “No one is saved but through you, O Most Holy.”

These are not the words of exaggeration, but of love enlightened by faith.

For as the holy Fathers taught, what was true in the figure of Eve is fulfilled in perfection in Mary.

• Eve was “mother of all the living” in the order of nature; Mary is Mother of all the living in grace.
• Eve stretched forth her hand to the tree and brought death; Mary stretched forth her heart beneath the Cross and brought life.
• Eve listened to the fallen angel and gave us sin; Mary listened to Gabriel and gave us the Savior.

Thus, what was marred in the first woman was restored and glorified in the second — the New Eve, Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix, through whom the gates of Paradise were reopened.

A Historical-Matured Fruit Of Ecumenic Fever

The so-called "doctrinal note" under the Imitator of Leo is in no way an isolated fact. It is the historically matured fruit of Modernist ecumenical fever.

After World War II, the Modernist revival disguised itself as “pastoral sensitivity.”

The same voices that had whispered that all religions have “elements of truth” began to find Marian dogma embarrassing.

When Pius XII was asked (1950s) to define Mary as Mediatrix of all graces, theologians influenced by the nouvelle théologie warned that Protestants would be “alienated.” The result was not denial, but silence — a pause, not a refusal. 

Then came Vatican II (1962-65). Instead of the expected Marian schema, the Council Fathers—under pressure from ecumenists-folded Marian teaching into Lumen Gentium, chapter VIII.

The word Co-Redemptrix disappeared; Mediatrix was mentioned only in passing, hedged by ambiguity:

“This however is so understood that it neither takes away nor adds anything to the dignity and efficacy of Christ the one Mediator.”

There you have it: the modernist Council sowed doubt where the popes had once spoken plainly.

From "Paul VI’s" Marialis Cultus (1974) to "John Paul II’s" cautious rephrasing, the emphasis shifted from Mary’s participation in Redemption to her “motherly example.”

"John Paul II" personally used “Co-Redemptrix” in private addresses, yet the Curia avoided any official act.

Then, in the 21st century, Modernist ecumenism fully ripened.

It is recorded that citing Scripture and tradition, Ratzinger, the future "Benedict XVI" said, "The precise meaning of these titles (co-redemptrix and co-mediatrix) is not clear, and the doctrine contained in them is not mature." 

Bergoglio, a.k.a "Francis", (2019) mocked proposals for a fifth Marian dogma as “foolishness”. At a general audience in 2020,  he said that Jesus entrusted Mary to humanity as a mother, "not as a goddess, not as co-redemptrix," adding that love motivated some people to call her co-redemptrix, but love often leads people to "exaggerate."

Now, the Imitator of Leo (2025), through the DDF’s Mater populi fidelis, follows suit: the titles “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of all graces” are “not to be used,” as they “obscure the sole mediatorship of Christ.”

What do we see? The logical fruit of ecumenism: anything that clearly confesses the unique grandeur of the Catholic Faith—especially of Mary—is filtered out as “excess.”

Yes. The ecumenist blushes to hear these titles.

• He fears that calling Mary “Co-Redemptrix” will “offend Protestants.”
• He prefers a dialogue without doctrine, a unity without truth.

But such unity is a mirage.

For if Mary’s role is denied, then Christ’s Cross is emptied of its glory.

To strip the Mother of her honors is to wound the Son in His members.

Pope Pius XII, in Mystici Corporis Christi (1943), reaffirmed the truth they now neglect:

 “Mary, the New Eve, offered her Son on Golgotha to the Eternal Father for all the children of Adam… hence she is deservedly the Mediatrix of all graces.”

You see? The Popes spoke — and the saints rejoiced.

Only Modernism, allergic to mystery, dares to silence the Mother at the Cross.

St. Charles Borromeo with Our Lady, "Treasurer of divine mercy" and the "Dispenser of heavenly gifts".

Why Would the Modernists Chose St. Charles’ Feast Day?

We can be sure that it is no accident that the Modernist Vatican chose November 4 — the Feast of St. Charles Borromeo — to strike at Mary’s honor. You see? Heaven writes with symbols, and so does Hell.

St. Charles was the hammer of heresy and the heart of Marian devotion in the age of Protestant revolt.

• While Luther’s followers stripped the altars of Mary, St  Charles raised hers higher;
• while they mocked her intercession, he called her the "Treasurer of divine mercy" and the "Dispenser of heavenly gifts".
• He built her shrines, taught her titles, and placed her image beside every confessional, that sinners might know grace comes through her hands.

In choosing his feast day to deny her as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix, the Modernists mock what he preached, reversing the Reformer of Trent to enthrone the errors he spent his life crushing.

But St. Charles still stands at the altar of eternity, pointing to the Cross and the Woman beneath it, declaring with the voice of the saints:

 “She offered her Son—and in offering Him, she offered herself.”

And that is why his feast shines brighter this year:

• the day they meant for denial becomes the day he proclaims anew—Mary, Mother of our Redemption, Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all graces.

Conclusion:

We must insist:

• True unity is not born in conferences but in Calvary.
• It is not signed in ink but sealed in the Blood of the Lamb.
• At the Cross, Mary gathers all who wish to belong to Christ.
• She does not bargain with error; she conquers it by love.
• There, every converted heart becomes truly Catholic —for in embracing the Redeemer, it must also embrace the Co-Redemptrix.

This is the true ecumenism — not the union of creeds, but the reunion of souls in the one Fold of the one Shepherd.

• The Modernist seeks to please men; Mary seeks only to glorify God.
• The Modernist hides the Cross to gain applause;
• Mary stands beneath it in sorrow and triumph.

Let the world call it “foolishness.”

Let the timid call it “excessive.”

But we, the children of the Mother of God, will never cease to cry:

 Hail Mary, Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of all graces, through whom the Savior came to us, and through whom we go to Him.

Oh yes! When Modernism stumbles, Mary stands.

And beside her, every true Catholic kneels.