Mary Motherhood and the Church

“Since the Virgin’s divine motherhood is literally the most beautiful , that is, most fitting (‘rightest’) and most proportionate, means for God to manifest the glory of his generosity, then Mary’s divine motherhood cannot but be, in a sense, the very final cause of creation itself.”

“[T]he incommunicability of personhood, manifest in the exclusivity of gender, brings to light the fact that true unity is not homogeneity, monochromatic sameness, but—quite literally, if one plays with the etymology—heterogeneity; it is a unity in and through the different relations to generation or fruitfulness .”

“The Church’s dependence on Christ through the Holy Spirit is the source of her independent reality.”

“The mysteries of the Ascension and Transfiguration breach the ultimately dehumanizing boundaries of the immanent frame and the buffered self and inaugurate the new creation.”

“The deposit of faith surpasses the capacity of any one human intellect and can only be proclaimed in its integrity by the united body of those whose divinely given mission is to transmit it.”

“[Recent approaches in Catholic moral theology] reject . . . an inadequately conceived objective law only to back . . . into a reductive sense of subjective freedom .”

“[T]he Word of the Father is formed by the word of a mother, and the Creator is created by the voice of a creature”