Lumen Gentium: Mary, Mother of Christ and of the Church

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Lumen Gentium: Mary, Mother of Christ and of the Church
Renata Sedmakova
Fresco of the Assumption of Virgin Mary in the Church Chiesa di Sant Antonio by C. Secchi.

COMMENTARY: The solemn approval of Vatican II’s Constitution on the Church had a decidedly Marian tone, marked by the document’s final chapter and Pope Paul VI’s declaration of Mary to be ‘Mother of the Church.’