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Exactly. That’s really the heart of what the Vatican was getting at in Mater Populi Fidelis. It’s not a downgrade of Mary, and it’s definitely not some modernist plot to erase her role. It’s more like a teacher realizing the class has started memorizing the glossary instead of grasping the story. These titles—Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix of All Graces—aren’t wrong. They’re just built for another audience. They make perfect sense if you’re the kind of person who reads theology textbooks for fun or toggles between the Greek text and the Douay-Rheims app before breakfast. And honestly, we need those people—they keep the faith intellectually alive. But that’s not who the Church is trying to reach here. Most people walk into Mass carrying bills, grief, or restless kids. They don’t need new terminology; they need clarity. And that’s not even considering the ones outside the walls—the folks we’re actually trying to evangelize—who either know nothing of Scripture or, worse, have a head full of Pastor Bob’s eisegesis and a minefield of theological IEDs designed to explode at the first mention of anything Catholic. Drop “Co-Redemptrix” in that environment and it’s game over before you’ve said “hail.” So, no—the Vatican’s not flattening doctrine. It’s translating it. Because when a word needs three footnotes and a pre-apology before it stops sounding like heresy, it’s probably not doing its job. The goal isn’t to impress the theologians; it’s to keep the door open for the lost. Mary doesn’t need grander titles—she just needs to be seen clearly, as the mother who leads us to Christ.