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Footnotes
- Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Mater Populi Fidelis: Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles Regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation, Vatican.va, November 4, 2025, Mater Populi fidelis – Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles Regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation (November 4, 2025).
- See Luiz Sérgio Solimeo, “Pope Francis Authorizes Blessing Homosexual Couples and Adulterers with a Declaration and a ‘Clarification’ that Favor Sin,” TFP.org, February 1, 2024, Pope Francis Authorizes Blessing Homosexual Couples and Adulterers with a Declaration and a “Clarification” that Favor Sin – The American TFP.
- Amy Harmon, Ruth Graham, and Sarah Maslin Nir, “Making History on a Tuesday Morning, With the Church’s Blessing,” The New York Times, December 19, 2023, After Pope’s Decision, a Same-Sex Couple Receives a Blessing in New York – The New York Times.
- Mater Populi Fidelis, Presentation.
- Gavin Ashenden, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria, In the Form of ‘Mary ‘Co-Redemptrix’?’ Mary, Politics, and the Ghost of Pope Francis,” November 5, 2025, ‘How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria,- In the Form of ‘Mary “Co-Redemptrix”?’
- Fr. Serafino Maria Lanzetta is a member of the Marian Franciscans in the United Kingdom. He is a lecturer in Systematic Theology at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, and at the Faculty of Theology in Lugano, Switzerland.
- Serafino Maria Lanzetta, “Commentary on Mater Populi Fidelis,” CatholicaFides.org, Nov. 6, 2025, 2025, https://catholicafides.org/2025/11/06/commento-alla-mater-populi-fidelis/.
- Pius XII, encyclical Humani Generis, no. 20, Humani Generis (August 12, 1950).
- Cf. J.-M. A. Vacant, The Ordinary Magisterium of the Church and its Organs, Printed with the authorization of His Grace the Bishop of Nancy and His Grace the Archbishop of (Paris: Delhomme et Briguet, 1887).
- Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. The Mother of the Savior, trans. Bernard J. Kelly (Charlotte, N.C.: Tan Books, 2012), Mother of the Saviour and Our Interior Life.
- Iosepho A. de Aldama, S.I., Mariologia seu de Matre Redemptoris, in Sacra theologiae summa (Madrid: Biblioteca de Autores Cristianos, 1950) v.3 p. 372.
- Fr. José A. de Aldama, “Posición actual del Magisterio Eclesiástico en el problema de la Corredención,” 75, Jose Antonio De Aldama : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
- Louis-Marie Grignon de Montfort. A Treatise on the True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, trans. Frederick William Faber (Sherbrooke, QC: St. Charles Seminary, 1901), pp. 75-76 A treatise on the true devotion to the Blessed Virgin [microform]: Grignion de Montfort, Louis-Marie, Saint, 1673-1716: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
- de Montfort, The True Devotion, 48.