Over lunch today Professor Russell Hittinger gave a lecture at the conference about Pope Leo XIII (Gioacchino Pecci). He mentioned that before Leo XIII’s papacy, his predecessor had issued the famous “Syllabus of Errors”, a wide-ranging list of doctrinal errors Catholics were to shun, and Bp. Pecci had contributed to the document’s draft. For better or worse, the Pope didn’t adopt his suggestion for the document’s title: “Mary, Exterminator of Heresies”.
On hearing that, the folks at our table, including Fr. Sibley, exchanged the thumbs-up sign: we think it was a great title: it would sound good, say, in the name of a religious order, or even just a local church (“I go to Mass at Mary Exterminator of Heresies Parish”)!