Members of an international group of leading theologians and Mariologists have written to Cardinal Victor Fernández, asking him to respond to their detailed criticisms of a Vatican doctrinal note published last November that diminished some long-established devotional Marian titles.
In a letter dated March 19, the Feast of St. Joseph, and made public on the Feast of the Annunciation, the Theological Commission of the International Marian Association expressed its disappointment that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), which Cardinal Fernández heads, had not yet replied to their concerns about Mater Populi Fidelis (Mother of the Faithful People) that they published in a lengthy commentary on Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.
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