[biblewonk]

The recourse we have to Mary in prayer follows upon the office she continuously fills by the side of the throne of God as Mediatrix of Divine grace...

When she professed herself the handmaid of the Lord for the mother's office, and when, at the foot of the altar, she offered up her whole self with her Child Jesus-then and thereafter she took her part in the laborious expiation made by her Son for the sins of the world. It is certain, therefore, that she suffered in the very depths of her soul with His most bitter sufferings and with His torments. Moreover, it was before the eyes of Mary that was to be finished the Divine Sacrifice for which she had borne and brought up the Victim. As we contemplate Him in the last and most piteous of those Mysteries, there stood by the Cross of Jesus His Mother, who, in a miracle of charity, so that she might receive us as her sons, offered generously to Divine Justice her own Son, and died in her heart with Him, stabbed with the sword of sorrow...

What we have here is another De Montfort!

[malakhi]

In light of these passages, I think I see how the Catholic church could theoretically allow women priests someday. Something like this: "Since a woman, Mary, presented the sacrifice of Jesus to the Father, then a woman, acting in persona Mary, can offer the unbloody sacrifice of Jesus in the eucharist".

Not saying this will happen, but if it did happen, this is how it could be justified. The foundation is already laid out in the encyclicals I cited last night.