Lighthouse Trails
by Rob Yardley
March 30, 2026
On November 4, 2025, the Roman Catholic Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a document titled “Mater Populi Fidelis” (MPF, Latin for “Mother of the Faithful People”). Signed by Pope Leo XIV, its primary purpose is indicated in Paragraph 22: Roman Catholics are no longer to refer to Mary as the Co-Redemptrix.
While this is one step in the right direction, the title “Mother of the Faithful” alone indicates that this document is not biblical. The Bible only knows one mother of all believers: “. . . Jerusalem which is above . . . is the mother of us all” (Galatians 4:26). Additionally …