Why do not the Protestant churches teach us anything about Marys power of intercession for us?
Because they have wrested Scripture to the destruction of all true understanding of Christian revelation, and have been led into many grave errors by an exaggerated literalism. Concentrating on the fact that Christ is the one principal Mediator, they have made no allowance for the equally clear doctrine of secondary mediation of one human being for another with, in, and through Christ. Though they repeat the words of the Creed, “I believe in the Communion of Saints,” they have no idea of the practical significance of those words. They do not understand that they mean the common union in Christ of all who love Him, so that He lives in them as in His very members, and in them as His own mystical body. But we Catholics understand this doctrine, and know that member can help member. We accept the teaching of St. James that the prayer of a just soul availeth much. And first and foremost among the just is the Mother of Christ. She is with God; she shared in the redemptive work of Christ; she
