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Pope Leo against cult: Virgin Mary was not co-savior of humanity

2025-11-07 19:14:00Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Pope Leo against cult: Virgin Mary was not co-savior of humanity
Pope Leo against cult: Virgin Mary was not co-savior of humanity

Pope Leo has asked Catholics to stop referring to Mary as someone who helped her son, Jesus, save the world from eternal damnation, at a time when an excessive devotion to the Blessed Virgin has spread, often on social media, prompting claims of apparitions, even weeping statues and self-proclaimed "prophets."

As The Guardian writes, a decree from the Vatican, approved by the Pope, declares that only Jesus saved humanity from hell and therefore Catholics should not call Mary "co-savior" or "co-redemptrix" (a term for someone who participates, in some way, in the work of saving humanity together with Jesus Christ), ending a long debate among Church theologians, which has also divided popes.

The decree emphasizes that Jesus alone saved the world through his death by sacrificing himself on the cross and that, although Mary opened the way for salvation by giving birth to him, she was not a "co-savior."

The late Pope Francis was categorically against calling Mary by this term, even saying in 2019 that it was “foolish” because “she never wanted to take anything for herself from her son.” His predecessor, Benedict XVI, had also opposed the idea.

But on the other hand, Pope John Paul II, who served from 1978 until his death in 2005, was a supporter of this title for Mary, but banned its public use in the mid-1990s due to growing skepticism.

According to the decree, this title "creates confusion and an imbalance in the harmony of the truths of the Christian religion" and "carries the risk of obscuring the exclusive role of Jesus Christ."

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican's doctrinal office, wrote in the preface to the decree that it was a response to questions in recent years about devotion to Mary and to clarify what is acceptable.

Iacopo Scaramuzzi, Vatican correspondent for the newspaper La Repubblica, said the decree is a way to curb the “cult of Our Lady.” “The Vatican is intervening in a devotion that is spreading on social networks and that is particularly embraced by conservative Catholics,” he said.

Last year, the Vatican tightened rules on supernatural phenomena such as apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in an effort to combat the hoaxes and lies that have proliferated in the age of social media.

Pope Francis warned in 2023 that apparitions of Mary “are not always true,” in what is believed to be an indirect reference to a woman who gathered thousands of pilgrims in a town near Rome to pray before a statue she claimed shed tears of blood. “When devotion to Mary becomes too self-centered, it is not good,” Francis said.

Rome-based Vatican expert Robert Mickens said the latest decision will please progressive Catholics. “Mary is considered the most exalted human creature, but she is not semi-divine,” he said.


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