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When he spoke at the Second Vatican Council on Sept 16, 1964 and said the following…
"I feel a special difficulty regarding the title ‘mediatrix.’ Its exact interpretation is very difficult. Indeed, authors apply quite varied interpretations to this term. Furthermore, the idea seems to frontally oppose the notion of unicus Mediator [Christ is the sole Mediator].
Regarding devotion to Mary, my opinion is that this text, which was meant to renew Marian devotion, will not be strong enough to contain all the abuses the document wants to repress. For, even though it curbs the abuse of fruitless affection and futile naïveté, it says nothing expressly about the need to correctly order Marial devotion. It speaks as if this devotion per se would lead the faithful to the knowledge, love, and glorification of Christ.
The affirmations of the document are true. But, aren’t they taking an excessively theoretical approach? Because it often happens - as was already noted by Cardinal Newman - that in fact the Marial devotion of the Christian people is not sufficiently oriented toward God or toward Christ."
(Paul Émile Leger, Intervention in the Conciliar Assembly, on September 16, 1964, apud Boaventura Kloppenburg, Concilio Vaticano II, Chronicle, Petropolis: Vozes, vol. 4, pp. 24-25) .
"I feel a special difficulty regarding the title ‘mediatrix.’ Its exact interpretation is very difficult. Indeed, authors apply quite varied interpretations to this term. Furthermore, the idea seems to frontally oppose the notion of unicus Mediator [Christ is the sole Mediator].
Regarding devotion to Mary, my opinion is that this text, which was meant to renew Marian devotion, will not be strong enough to contain all the abuses the document wants to repress. For, even though it curbs the abuse of fruitless affection and futile naïveté, it says nothing expressly about the need to correctly order Marial devotion. It speaks as if this devotion per se would lead the faithful to the knowledge, love, and glorification of Christ.
The affirmations of the document are true. But, aren’t they taking an excessively theoretical approach? Because it often happens - as was already noted by Cardinal Newman - that in fact the Marial devotion of the Christian people is not sufficiently oriented toward God or toward Christ."
(Paul Émile Leger, Intervention in the Conciliar Assembly, on September 16, 1964, apud Boaventura Kloppenburg, Concilio Vaticano II, Chronicle, Petropolis: Vozes, vol. 4, pp. 24-25) .
