My First Fifty Theses and Aphorisms Against Calling the Virgin Mary Our Most Gracious Advocate

[Casus_Conscientiae]

Gloria Patri, et Filii, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

In English: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost: As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. AMEN.

I, a professing Christian, have serious and strongly reasonable conscientious objections to calling the Virgin Mary, “our most gracious Advocate”. Many of these objections arise from the Roman Catholic Canon Law itself in its original form from AD 1234 to AD 1917.

1. The traditional teaching of the Latin-Only Tridentine Rite "roman catholic church" from time immemorial is entirely and intrinsically against the very concept of women holding public or civil office in the State. See: Catholic Teaching on Women Holding Public Office (https://stevensperay.wordpress.com/2021 ... ic-office/), and the same was confirmed by Pope Leo XIII (Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor) # 42 1891), Pope St. Pius X in 1906, (Hause & Kenny, ‘The development of the Catholic Women’s Suffrage Movement’, pp. 11-30), and again in 1909 (NYT April 22, 1909), when he denied the equality of the sexes.

2. According to Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15, page 697, ‘I. Ulpian (Dig., I, 16, 195) gives a celebrated rule of law which most canonists have embodied in their works: “Women are ineligible to all civil and public offices, and therefore they cannot be judges, nor hold a magistracy, nor act as lawyers, judicial intercessors, or procurators.” Public offices are those in which public authority is exercised; civil offices, those connected otherwise with municipal affairs. The reason given by canonists for this prohibition is not the levity, weakness, or fragility of the female sex, but the preservation of the modesty and dignity peculiar to woman’.

3. According to https://stevensperay.wordpress.com/2021 ... ic-office/, even the Pope of Rome himself, however great and excellent he in his pride and arrogance may think or wish his prerogatives to be above all men, yea, and even above all angels of Heaven, does not have the lawful authority to overturn the traditional teaching of the Catholic Church from time immemorial on this topic.

4. The conventional wisdom of the Traditionalist "roman catholic" movement is that only a Modernist would ever deny that it is contrary to the peculiar modesty and dignity of the female sex to hold public office.

5. However, it is well known that every "roman catholic", even of the traditional Latin-Only Tridentine Rite traditionalist sort, calls the Virgin Mary our Corredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocateand intercessor with the Deity.

6. The function, activity, and/or office of a mediator consists more especially in being ‘arbitrator ("mediator"), guaranteeing the performance of all the terms stipulated in a covenant (agreement); but in matters of the salvation of the soul, the term mediator must be understood to mean a person who arbitrates in order to reconcile God and man, since they were the parties at variance; yea, anything however much it may be on pretext of being a mediator, even if it involves leading in public prayer or worship, is ineffectual and null and void ab initio unless it also produces reconciliation between God and man, appeasement of God’s wrath and indignation against man, and piety, devotion, and love of men towards God, and good-will of man towards his fellow-man.

7. This mediation will continue for as long as men continue to be born and live on this earth (i.e. it will continue until entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven).

8. These canonical provisions of the Church, reflecting the traditional moral doctrine of the Roman Catholic excluding women from civil and/or public office since time immemorial, were imposed upon the living: and so, by virtue of the same reason why they have the particular terms and provisions they have, it is not befitting to exempt the dead from these canonical provisions.

9. Every practice of the function, activity, or office of mediator in the civil, criminal, or political sphere is an intermeddling of him who exercises this office with those particular civil and political (and juridical) affairs wherein the antagonistical parties are at variance.

10. Likewise, every practice of the function, activity, or office of mediator in the spiritual realm is an intermeddling of him who exercises this office with those particular spiritual, moral, and soteriological affairs wherein the Holy and Just and Righteous God and sinful carnal man are enemies.

TO BE CONTINUED