[FormerLib]

1) The term "focus of our hope" refers to Mary being in the Kingdom of God in her resurrected body as we all hope to be when the time comes. It does not mean that she is the source of that hope.

2) Mary's role in Christ's coming was an important one. While the Orthodox avoid terms such as "Co-Redemptrix" because that could be (possibly mis-) interpreted as meaning that Christ couldn't have done it with her, we do recognize that she was the singlemost important member of all of His chosen.

Neither of these positions is blasphemous, IMHO.

[Pyro7480]

See my post #10. And what do you think of the actual article?

[Hermann the Cherusker]

could be (possibly mis-) interpreted as meaning that Christ couldn't have done it with her

Something to ponder. Could Christ have done it without her? In a certain sense no. He needed Mary to be truly made man. A theophany would not have sufficed for true God to be made true man.