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Neither Taking Away nor Adding Anything

This Rock Volume 18, Number 10   December 2007     Reasons for Hope By Cherie Peacock   Letters   Mary, Mother of Salvation: How to Explain the "Co-Redemptrix" to Evangelicals By Fr. Dwight Longenecker   Further Reading   Mary’s Mediation Originates with Christ   Neither Taking Away nor Adding Anything   Seventeen Questions about Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials By Pete Vere   For Good and Ill: They Slip Past Watchful Dragons By Sophia Sproule   Fantastic Alternatives   Why Believe? An Apologetic of Faith By Carl E. Olson   If You Understood Him, It Would Not Be God   Eight Books about Faith   Damascus Road St. Monica, Pray for Us! By Peter Michael Refakis   By the Book It’s Not Over 'til It’s Over By Tim Staples   Eyes to See Tipping Point By Michael Schrauzer   Truth be Told Pope of the Worker By Matthew E. Bunson   Quick Questions   Last Writes By Karl Keating    Subscribe    Permissions

[T]he Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix. This, however, is so understood that it neither takes away anything from nor adds anything to the dignity and efficacy of Christ the one Mediator.

No creature could ever be counted along with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer; but just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by his ministers and the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is radiated in different ways among his creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a manifold cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source.

—Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, 62