Many responses to the recent Marian docoment from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith document are coming forth. I refer, of course, to Mater Populi Fidelis, the “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles Regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation.”
First, we have Tim Gordon and his friend, Andrew, interviewing the theologian Father Chad Ripperger. Many excellent points are made here, including philosophical points regarding primary and secondary causality, which Father Ripperger holds the document did not properly explain:
And here is a disciple of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Father Fr. Elias Mary, of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate:
