[Dr. Eckleburg]

Catholics have spent hundreds and hundreds of posts laughing at the utter bankruptcy of passing off co-Redemptrix as a doctrine of the Catholic Church.

Then why didn't at least one of you think to copy pope John Paul II on that memo?

JPII referred to Mary as the "co-redemptrix" on at least six (some say eight) occasions during his papacy.

[Petronski]

Reference by a pope, once or a hundred times, does not Catholic doctrine make.

[Petronski]

Yes, I’m still laughing at the bankruptcy of your position.

[netmilsmom]

>>Then why didn’t at least one of you think to copy pope John Paul II on that memo?<<
Because as Marysecretary says...”He’s dead Jim.”

Hanging here in the religion forum can make one miss info. JPII is dead, Pope Benedict is very much alive and our new Pope. Here’s what he says......

“Yet when asked, in a 2000 interview by Peter Seewald contained in the book God and the World, whether the Church would go along with the desire to solemnly define Mary as Co-redemptrix, Ratzinger’s response doesn’t look good. He says that the title Co-redemptrix “departs to too great an extent from the language of Scripture and of the Fathers and therefore gives rise to misunderstandings” (53). He also says that “for matters of faith, continuity of terminology with the language of Scripture and that of the Fathers is itself an essential element; it is improper simply to manipulate language” (54). “