The Blessed Mother has always been present within the encyclicals and documents of recent popes. Pope Leo XIV also draws us to Marian devotion with his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas.
In sections devoted to Mary, placing the emphasis on the Annunciation and particularly the Magnificat, he gives the answer and the antidote to society’s rush toward artificial intelligence. Mary is the model of the true human being and shows how humanity fulfills what it is meant to be by choosing God and his will and humility, instead of trying to again build a modern Tower of Babel.
Pope Leo entrusts “our desire to the Mother of Christ, to the Woman of the Magnificat, that she may guide our steps through this time of change and preserve in each of us true faith in the Gospel, so that we may bear witness to the grandeur of humanity, in which God has made his dwelling.”
To explore the Holy Father’s reflections on the Mother of God early in his pontificate, the Register spoke with Mark Miravalle, who holds the St. John Paul II Chair of Mariology at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio. Miravalle also is a professor at Ave Maria University
