The present four Marian dogmas (Divine Maternity, Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception, Assumption) identify the principal prerogatives of the Blessed Virgin Mary during her earthly life and in relation to her Divine Son. But the sublime tasks assigned by the Holy Trinity to the Virgin Mother do not cease there: She has been designated the Spiritual Mother of all people and all nations.
Mary fulfills her role as Spiritual Mother under a three-fold aspect: Mary is Co-redemptrix, Mediatrix of all graces, and Advocate. This doctrine finds abundant support in Sacred Scripture, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and in the teachings of the Papal Magisterium.
If, then, the doctrine of Our Lady’s Spiritual Motherhood as expressed in the above three titles is already part of the authoritative doctrinal teachings of the Papal Magisterium, why the need for a papal definition? The proclamation of the dogma would allow the Mother to have her chance to intercede for a new peace and grace for our world. The Holy Father would be declaring our acknowledgement, on the highest level of Catholic truth, that she truly is our universal Spiritual Mother, and that we humbly and trustingly beseech our Heavenly Queen and Mother for the interior peace of Christ in the hearts of humanity that is necessary for any authentic and perduring global peace.
Vox Populi Mariae Mediatrici is an international lay organization that seeks to work for this papal definition by gathering petitions from the faithful throughout the world in humble support of our Holy Father for this final Marian dogma. Vox Populi humbly calls for our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, to proclaim and define the universal mediation of Mary as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate as "Christian dogma revealed by God, in rightful veneration of the Mother of Jesus, and for the good of the one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church of Christ". Vox Populi has already received more than 7 million petitions and has also received the endorsements of 43 cardinals and over 550 bishops worldwide from the Universal Church.
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