The commander of the battle never sleeps! She works night and day, 24/7, through her little army, made up, as she has said, of the little ones, the humble, the simple, the poor and the marginalized.
One after the other, in this new year, the army of the Woman clothed with the sun has won two final victories, namely the confirmation of two doctrines of faith.
The first doctrine:
A few days ago, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith confirmed what a document of the same Congregation had declared when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) was its prefect: there is no salvation except in the person of Jesus Christ, and also: no salvation outside the Catholic Church.
The second doctrine:
A few days ago, Pope Francis confirmed the “dogma” of “Mary, Mother of the Church,” which the late Blessed Pope Paul VI had himself proclaimed as Bishop of Rome (ex cathedra) at the close of the Second Vatican Council; and he confirmed it further by establishing a feast of Mary, Mother of the Church, on the Monday after Pentecost.
These two doctrines were a strong slap in the face for the proponents of modernist theology, who tried by every means to deny and reject them, claiming they did not have the consensus of the Church. The slap came to them from the pontificate of Pope Francis himself, when they least expected it.
So, according to the author, five Marian dogmas have been established so far in the Catholic Church:
- the divine motherhood of the Virgin Mary (Council of Ephesus, 431);
- her perpetual virginity (the author cites the Third Lateran Council, 1179);
- the Immaculate Conception (1854, Pope Pius IX);
- her Assumption, body and soul, into heaven (1950, Pope Pius XII);
- Mary, Mother of the Church (the author cites Pope Paul VI, 1965).
The last, three-part dogma that heaven and the Virgin Mary are said to be awaiting from the Catholic Church is:
- Mary Co-Redemptrix;
- Mary Mediatrix of all graces;
- Mary Advocate of the human race.
The Virgin Mary is said to have told Ida Peerdeman in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she reportedly appeared under the title “Mother and Lady of All Nations”: “When the Catholic Church, of which I am the Mother, grants me this last title… then I will intervene in person to crush the head of the infernal serpent once and for all, and bring peace to the world.”
Cardinal Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai
He is the only voice of the Church, in the Church and in the world, who, having consecrated his country, Lebanon, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary as she requested at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, then proclaimed from Fatima itself, in June (the original says “June 1917,” an obvious typo), during the annual renewal of Lebanon’s consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, this last dogma of Mary as Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix and Advocate, to the astonishment of all the clergy and faithful of East and West at the boldness of this Maronite cardinal and his great love for the most holy Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church and Mother of all people.
The wish of all Lebanese:
Will Cardinal Rai be “the next pope,” the one who proclaims this last Marian dogma?!
“What is impossible for people is not impossible for God,” and above all for the Virgin Mary with her Son who loves her, he who is faithful to the teaching of the Church and the true Gospel, before the eyes and ears of all, on Télé Lumière, for more than 25 years and still today.
Prepared by Oikonomos Elias Rahhal, head of the Marian Movement of Priests.
Translator’s note: several statements in this article do not match the official teaching of the Catholic Church.
- The Church recognizes four Marian dogmas: the divine motherhood (Ephesus, 431), perpetual virginity (taught notably by the Lateran Council of 649, not Lateran III), the Immaculate Conception (1854) and the Assumption (1950).
- “Mary, Mother of the Church” is not a dogma. Paul VI proclaimed the title on 21 November 1964, during the Council, without an ex cathedra definition; in 2018 Pope Francis added the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, on Pentecost Monday to the calendar.
- The 2018 document mentioned at the start is probably the letter Placuit Deo, which restates that salvation comes from Christ and is mediated through the Church; it does not define a new dogma.
- A patriarch cannot proclaim a dogma; only the pope, or an ecumenical council in union with him, can do so.
- The Holy See has not recognized the Amsterdam apparitions as supernatural. As for the titles “Co-Redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of all graces,” the doctrinal note Mater populi fidelis (Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, 2025) judges the first inappropriate and urges great caution with the second.
