These Last Days News - December 8, 2025
We encourage everyone to share this web page with others, especially bishops and clergy.

Faithful Worldwide Petition Pope Leo XIV to Re-examine “Mater Populi Fidelis”...

“DO NOT SEND ME AWAY” 
"Man will weep, man will gnash his teeth in sorrow. It is through the merciful heart of the Father that I have been allowed to come to earth as a Mediatrix between God and man. Do not cast Me aside; do not send Me away, for if you do, you will lose souls, and you as teacher and representatives of my Son shall enter the kingdom of satan. Woe unto the leaders who use their ranks to destroy the souls. You shall not lead the soul to the slaughter."  - Our Lady, March 18, 1974

MEDIATRIX OF ALL GRACES
"I am the Queen of Heaven, Mother of earth, and Mediatrix of all graces. I will stand here through the turmoil that lies ahead within the holy House of God.”  - Our Lady, October 6, 1972

“HER VOICE SHALL NOT BE STILLED”
"My Mother has come to you as a Mediatrix between God and man. Her voice shall not be stilled. Her words of warning and direction shall not be cast aside.
     “As a disciple of light, each one of you shall go forward and give the Message from Heaven. If you are rejected, continue on to the next door. Your mission is not to force your will upon mankind, but to bring the Message of your God to your brother and your sister and pray that he shall at least look upon and examine this message for the salvation of his soul and the souls of those he loves."  - Jesus, March 18, 1976

The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York. Read more

DianeMontagna.substack.com reported on December 8, 2025:

By Diane Montagna

Today, as Catholics around the world celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, a global “filial appeal” initiative is being launched, respectfully urging Pope Leo XIV to re-examine Mater Populi Fidelis.

Titled, A Filial Appeal to Pope Leo XIV, the initiative comes amid persistent and intensifying concerns over last month’s doctrinal Note on the Marian titles “Co-redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of All Graces,” issued by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith.

Written by respected Italian Mariologist, Father Serafino Lanzetta, and available in six languages (with more forthcoming), the letter conveys the “dismay and consternation felt by a significant portion of the holy People of God” after the publication, on 4 November 2025, of the mariological Note.

The one-page appeal continuess:

“As children of the Church, our consciences are profoundly troubled as we read the statements contained in this Note regarding certain Marian titles that refer to the cooperation of Mary Most Holy in the work of our salvation. How can we not be afflicted to see this new mariological position set itself in clear opposition to the teaching handed down until now—teaching which has always recognized in the Virgin Mary a unique, real, and maternal role in the economy of Redemption?”

A “grassroots” initiative, it allows clergy and laity to download the letter, sign and date it, indicate their country and diocese of origin, and mail it directly to the Holy Father at Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.

Fr. Lanzetta, a lecturer in dogmatic theology and prolific author on Marian themes, said he wrote the appeal to serve the faithful who wish respectfully to address their concerns to the Holy Father in a way that is grounded in a rigorous theological assessment of Mater Populi Fidelis.

He was among the first to voice serious reservations about the new doctrinal Note. One week after DDF Prefect Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández presented Mater Populi Fidelis in Rome, Fr. Lanzetta published an in-depth analysis arguing that the document adopts a minimalist view of the Blessed Virgin Mary and represents “a significant downgrade”—not only from the teaching of the saints, doctors, and ordinary magisterium of the popes, but also from the Second Vatican Council’s treatment of Mary’s role in the work of salvation.

Fr. Lanzetta was not alone in his criticism. In an interview with Swiss media, one of Church’s leading authorities on Mariology, Fr. Salvatore Perrella, OSM—a former Professor of Dogmatics and Mariology at the Pontifical Theological Faculty Marianum, who was esteemed by Pope Benedict XVI—offered a searing critique of MPF, saying it reveals the theological and methodological incompetence of those who produced it.

And today, Mater Populi Fidelis faced another significant blow as one of the Church’s foremost associations of Mariologists issued a theological response to the Note, concluding that despite certain positive elements, “there remain significant theological points that require substantial clarification and modification.”

Published on Dec 8 by the International Marian Association Theological Commission (IMATC), the 23-page document evaluates, in light of the papal magisterium and the Church’s great Mariologists, MPF’s stance on the Marian titles “Co-redemptrix” and “Mediatrix of All Graces,” its treatment of Mary’s instrumental and secondary causality of grace, the nature of her merit, and pastoral implications of diminishing the Blessed Virgin’s unique and active role in the work of Redemption.

The IMATC response argues that, by presenting a Redemption based on “Jesus alone” bereft of any human redemptive value on the part of Mary,” the DDF’s doctrinal Note “seems to resemble more a Protestant theology of Redemption than that of the Catholic Church.”

Calling for a “re-evaluation” of Mater Populi Fidelis, its signatories—who include cardinals, bishops, priests and lay theologians such as renowned biblical scholar Dr. Scott Hahn and noted Mariologist Dr. Mark Miravalle—offer an objective yet ultimately scathing analysis of MPF.

Their critique appears to reinforce Fr. Salvatore Perrella’s contention that the Note “should have been prepared by persons competent in the field.”

Amid these sustained theological critiques of Mater Populi Fidelis, the new “filial appeal” initiative offers clergy and laity a simple yet concrete and effective means to ask Pope Leo XIV to “hear their sorrow and intervene in whatever manner he deems most fitting, so that the honor, truth, and special veneration owed to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Our Mother, may be restored.”

---

Download and read a printable version of the filial appeal in English here. Should you and/or your family wish to join in the initiative, simply sign the letter and mail it via ordinary post to this address:

HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV

PALAZZO APOSTOLICO

00120 VATICAN CITY

You may also read and download a printable version of the appeal in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and German and English here (French coming soon) here: https://sites.google.com/view/supplica-mater-populi-fidelis/filial-appeal-to-the-holy-father-pope-leo-xiv

Be sure to email this page to all your friends.

"The judgment of your God is not akin to the judgment of man. The Eternal Father will only judge by the heart. Your rank, your accumulation of worldly goods does not set you up before another. Many have sold their souls within the holy House of God. Better that you strip yourself and remove all worldly interests now while you have the time to make amends to your God, for many mitres will fall into hell." - St. Thomas Aquinas, August 21, 1972

GRACES IN ABUNDANCE
"I am the Queen of Heaven, Mother of earth, Mediatrix of all graces. I come to you with graces in abundance, graces for the asking. I will dispense to all those who join Me in rescuing their brothers, many graces—manifestations by means of conversion and cure. I place upon these consecrated, sacred grounds the graces to rescue souls in these dark days." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 20, 1972

The Virgin Mary's Bayside Prophecy Books are Now Available in E-book Version. Click Here Now!

When you pray the Holy Rosary, you have Our Lady's hand in yours. When you pray the Holy Rosary, you have the power of God in your hands. Start now!  Click here...

Our Lady of the Roses Awesome Bayside Prophecies... https://www.tldm.org/Bayside/ These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

Directives from Heaven... https://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm

D8 - Blessed Virgin Mary  PDF
D194 - Mary, Mediatrix of All Graces   PDF
D466 - Our Lady, Part 2 PDF
D650 - Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary PDF
D722 - Our Lady's Beauty PDF
D793 - Our Lady, Our Spiritual Mother PDF

The electronic form of this document is copyrighted.
Quotations are permissible as long as this web site is acknowledged with a hyperlink to: http://www.tldm.org
Copyright © These Last Days Ministries, Inc. 1996 - 2025   All rights reserved.
P.O. Box 40                   616-698-6448
Lowell, MI 49331-0040
Revised: December 09, 2025