Table of Contents
Author's Note xi
Introduction xiii
Part I Mary and Creative Minorities
1 The Benedictine Model 3
2 The Most Powerful Woman in the World 16
3 Mary, Cultivator of Culture 28
Part II Mary's Geopolitical Influence
4 Our Lady of Guadalupe: Islam and Evangelization 47
5 Our Lady of Lourdes: Humbling the Proud 63
6 Our Lady of Fatima: Conquering Communism 79
Part III Who Is This Woman?
7 Mariolotty or Mariology? 97
8 Mary and the Trinity: It Is All About Relationships 114
9 Mary's Maternal Care on a Personal Level 129
10 Anti-Mary or the Age of Mary? 144
Part IV Living the Marian Option
11 The Simple Remedy 161
12 Mary Prepares Us for Anything 177
13 Case Study on Pope St. John Paul II 188
14 The Marian Solution 201
Appendix: Daily Ways to Live the Marian Option 205
Further Reading 215
Acknowledgments 217