11 Facts About Catholic Mariology

Study of Mary and her place in the Catholic Mariology Church has been undertaken from a number of perspectives and within a number of contexts, and in his address to the 2012 Mariological congress, Pope Benedict XVI stated that this study must be "understood and deeply examined from different and complementary viewpoints".

Benedict emphasized that the study of Mary cannot be performed in isolation from other disciplines and that Catholic Mariology is inherently related to the study of Christ and of the church, and expresses the inner coherence of these disciplines.

Pope John Paul II was careful to avoid both maximalism and minimalism in his Catholic Mariology and avoided taking personal positions on issues which were subject to theological debate.

Pope Benedict XVI characterized the relationship by stating that "Christology and Catholic Mariology are inseparably interwoven" from their very beginnings.

In Catholic Mariology theology the study of Mary, while contributing to the study of Christ, is a separate discipline in its own right, with an understanding of the figure of Mary contributing to a fuller understanding of who Christ is and what he did.

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When responding to Pope Pius XII following the circulation of Deiparae Virginis Mariae, a large number of Catholic Mariology bishops pointed to the Book of Genesis as a scriptural basis.

Apart from the four Marian dogmas listed above, the Catholic Mariology Church holds a number of other doctrines about the Virgin Mary which have been developed by references to Sacred Scripture, theological reasoning and church tradition.

The Catholic Mariology faith teaches that Mary, the Virgin Mother of God, reigns with a mother's solicitude over the entire world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness with the glory of a Queen, as Pius XII wrote:.

Rahner's Catholic Mariology, following Ambrose, saw Mary in her role within the church, his interpretation being based solely on Ambrose and the early Fathers.

Catholic Mariology alone reconciled through his death on the Cross creator and creation.

Every year, millions of Catholic Mariology pilgrims visit the Basilica at Our Lady of Lourdes in search of miraculous cures.