Why do Catholic call Mother Mary “Queen of Heaven and Earth?
Some Evangelicals have problems with this “Queen” thing. Perhaps the best way to explain it is to compare Heaven to the Commonwealth. We live in a time when the Queen of England is the highest in the Commonwealth. There is no king. She wears the commonwealth trousers. She is it. She is the focus. I grew up singing “God save the Queen.” So it is natural that our contemporary understanding of the word Queen would be someone in highest authority. But what happens to the queen when there is a king? Then who has the authority? In commonwealth law, when there is a king, the queen has absolutely no authority whatsoever except the quiet whisper in the king’s ear to influence a decision. (Jn 2:3) JESUS IS KING. He is it. Now if Mary is Queen, it means that she has no authority whatsoever over his decisions except a whisper in his ear (Jn 2:3). So I don’t believe that calling Mary the Queen diminishes the King’s (Jesus’) authority in the least. In fact it reinforces it. What respectable King doe
