Denver’s Archbishop Chaput gave a wide-ranging talk to a Catholic women’s group last month:
The reason the secular world seeks to reinvent or reinterpret Mary is because she’s dangerous. She’s the model of mature human character — a human being who co-creates a new world not through power, but through unselfish love, faith in God, and the rejection of power.
That kind of witness goes against the spirit that dominates our world — the immaturity and selfishness in our personal consumption, our politics and our workplaces, and even within our families….
The struggle for power is what the modern world is all about.
(Thanks for the link, Genevieve.)