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The Blessed Virgin Mary and Political Life, by Carl E. Olson – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report, May 16, 2026

Carl E. Olson is editor of Catholic World Report and Ignatius Insight. He is the author of Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?, Will Catholics Be “Left Behind”?, co-editor/contributor to Called To Be the Children of God, co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax (Ignatius), and author of the “Catholicism” and “Priest Prophet King” Study Guides for Bishop Robert Barron/Word on Fire. …

We can also discern “public” or even “political” implications of the life of St. Mary, and May is as good a time as any to consider how titles of Mary can teach us how to live our public lives.

As any reader of Catholic World Report knows very well, May is designated by the Church as the Month of Mary. It is the time of the year in which we especially celebrate the many graces and virtues of the Blessed Mother of Our Lord—her sinlessness, her dedication and constancy, her solace for sinners, and any of a long list of attributes and patronages.

St. Mary is an icon of devotion and docility, providing the model of how to say, “be it done according to your will.” Usually, this translates into acts of personal piety and devotion, and rightly so. But we can also discern “public” or even “political” implications of the life of St. Mary, and May is as good a time as any to consider how titles of Mary can teach us how to live our public lives, as well as to conduct private prayer. St. John Henry Newman’s meditations on the Litany of Loreto suggest some of those implications. …

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