News – New Groundswell for Marian Coredemption

Ave Maria!

Recent initiatives in support of the Dogmatic Declaration of Marian Coredemption are springing up like May flowers in this Month of Mary and are the fruit of many years of dialogue and theological discussion organized by the Hierarchy, the Franciscans of the Immaculate, and Vox Popoli Mariae Mediatrici. This movement is supported by a wide range of theologians and lay people, and the initiatives have five main thrusts: Hierarchical, Theological, Popular Apologetical, a Video Series on the internet, and a Lay Petition drive.

Hierarchical:

A symposium was held on May 3rd to the 7th, 2005 in Fatima, Portugal, led by five Cardinals which the Franciscans of the Immaculate helped arrange. The gathering of over fifty bishops from around the world, including five cardinals, resulted in a book written by the nine cardinals listed bellow.

Toppo	Martinez	Gagnon	Estevez	Schonborn
Varkey	Vidal	Spidlik	Trujillo	Lozano

Mary, Unique Cooperator in the Redemption Why Mary should be dogmatically declared as Coredeemer Authored by: Nine Cardinals of the Church and other Major Marian Theologians. Each of the nineteen presentations are printed in the language originally given by the speakers: seven in English, four in Spanish and eight in Italian. It addresses many of the ecumenical concerns raised in the past.

This book along with a petition by over forty Cardinals and Bishops in support of the dogma was presented to Pope Benedict XVI on June 3, 2006, by His Eminence, Telesphore Cardinal Toppo of Ranchi, India

Theological Symposia:

Here are just some of the Marian Theologians that have attended past International Coredemption Symposia in England and Fatima, Portugal, between 2000 and 2008:

Calkins	Llamas	Arellano	Manelli	Fehlner	Hnilica
Miravalle	Perotto	Hauke	Settimio Manelli	Gherardini	Biestro

These symposia resulted in the following 9 books available from Academy of the Immaculate:

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
2005	2006	2007	2008

Info on the 8th International Symposium on July 17-20, 2007 in Fatima, Portugal. See Video

With over 10 Cardinals, 40 Bishops and 60 major Marian Theologians, these events clearly out-weigh the 1996 Czestachowa Commission, which came to a negative conclusion, but had serious deficiencies and no hierarchy in attendance.

Popular Conference:

Marian Coredemption Conference in Greenwood, Indiana, Oct 13, 2007. See Videos

Hahn	Miravalle	Fehlner	Burke
Evert	de Souza	Straub

Upcoming Video Series:

Stay tuned to Air Maria for Dr. Miravalle’s new Series on Coredemption in June.

Miravalle

Petition Drive:

an initiative by Dr. Mark Miravalle at Vox Popoli for a popular petition to Pope Benedict XVI. Let your voice be heard!!

You can read the letter by Mark Miravalle about how you can submit your petition to the Holy Father and how these Bishops and Cardinals have already done so. What the pope is saying about Mary

The Saints:

Mary is our Co-redemptrix with Jesus. She gave Jesus his body and suffered with him at the foot of the Cross.

Mary is the Mediatrix of all grace. She gave Jesus to us, and as our Mother she obtains for us all his graces.

Mary is our Advocate who prays to Jesus for us. It is only through the Heart of Mary that we come to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus.

The papal definition of Mary as Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate will bring great graces to the Church.

All for Jesus through Mary.

God bless you,

M. Teresa, M.C.

Letter of Endorsement for the Papal Definition of Mary Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix, Advocate , Mother Teresa of Calcutta, August 14, 1993.

Read what 20th Century Saints and Blesseds have to say about this doctrine in this Hagiography compiled by Fr. Stefano Manelli, founder of the Franciscans of the Immaculate.

Saints:

Gemma Galgani	Pope Pius X	Frances Xavier Cabrini	Pio of Pietrelcina	Leopold Mandic
Josemaria Escrivà	Edith Stein	Maximilian Mary Kolbe	Luigi Orione

Blesseds:

Elizabeth of the Trinity	Bartolo Longo	James Alberione	Ildephonse Cardinal Schuster

And, finally, read what many others are saying.

Mother Mary, in our troubled times may we have the grace to call you Coredeemer, Mediatrix and Advocate!

Ave Maria!