Doctrine Was Not Decided but Predetermined From the Beginning

David Martin | The Daily Knight

Contrary to the opinion of some, Catholic doctrine didn’t develop or come about through the learning of men but was set in stone from the beginning by Christ. No new doctrine has been added since that time.

As the Church teaches, all doctrine ceased to be laid down with the death of the last Apostle. What Christ gave us were doctrinal absolutes, which are not debatable, though the Church’s enemies have contrived devious methods to try to erase from our minds the magisterial nature of Catholic doctrine.

Stirring Up Debate Over Doctrine

A typical modernist ploy used since Vatican II is that they will take an established doctrine of the Faith and create a debate out of it to make it look like the matter is undecided. Then after much discussion and ‘synodality’ the modernists will decide against it.

This is what they have done with the teaching on the Virgin Mary’s role as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Grace. For the past sixty years weak faith bishops have heckled over Our Lady’s preordained role and have created a debate out of it to instigate doubts against it so that after years of needless debate the Vatican’s doctrinal office (DDF) has now made a negative decision about the Blessed Virgin’s roles as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix.

Vatican Rejects Mary’s Role as Co-Redemptrix

Pope Leo and DDF Prefect Cardinal Victor Fernandez have now decided that the Virgin Mary is not Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Grace. This defies Church teaching since this doctrinal issue was already ‘decided’ from the beginning. Under the guise of praising Mary’s tenderness Leo’s Vatican strips her of her titles and dignity.

The teaching about Mary being Co-Redemptrix comprises part of the Church’s Ordinary Magisterium, but because it was never defined as dogma it has made it easier for modernists to undermine and ‘decide’ against this teaching. Hence the importance of dogma!

Ordinary and Extraordinary Magisterium are Equally True

Some are under the false impression that dogmatically defining an article of faith is what establishes it as true, when in fact defining dogma simply makes official what already is the case.

For instance, the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD dogmatically decreed that Mary is the Mother of God, but Mary always was the Mother of God and was held as such by the devout from the first century. It was St. John the Apostle who gave Mary the title “Mother of God and of the Redeemer.”

In 1274, the Second Council of Lyons dogmatically decreed the truth of Purgatory, affirming its existence and that souls are purified there after death with the assistance of prayers from the faithful, but this truth was already known and taught from the days of the Apostles and even during the Old Testament.  

Again, when Pope Pius IX dogmatically decreed that Mary was conceived Immaculate (1854) he didn’t establish something new but was doubling down on what already was true. And while many in the early Church weren’t always in touch with such truths, these truths were certainly known among the Apostles and God’s elect since it was Christ himself who taught these truths.

Some will argue that they have never read this in the Bible, but let them not forget the words of St. John in the Bible where he tells us: “There are also many other things which Jesus did; which, if they were written every one, the world itself, I think, would not be able to contain the books that should be written.” (John 21:25)