As Catholics, we’ve always understood something that many outside the Church are only beginning to realize: the veneration of Mary is not optional. It is essential. She is not a peripheral figure in salvation history but the woman chosen by God from all eternity to bear His Son. And as our culture crumbles under the weight of individualism and spiritual confusion, even some Protestant voices are now pointing to Mary as a necessary guide—especially for women.
On a recent episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, popular Evangelical commentator Charlie Kirk openly criticized Protestantism’s general discomfort with honoring Mary. “I think we as Protestant evangelicals under-venerate Mary. She was very important. She was a vessel for our Lord and Savior,” Kirk said, acknowledging a widespread neglect among non-Catholics. “We’ve over-corrected. We don’t talk about Mary enough. We don’t venerate her enough.”
For Catholics, this isn’t news—it’s doctrine. Mary’s “yes” to God brought salvation into the world through Jesus Christ. Her role as Theotokos, the “Mother of God,” is not just a title but a declaration of the mystery of the Incarnation. The early Church Fathers, as Kirk rightly noted through referencing author Joshua Charles, honored her as the “spotless” and “holy” “ever-virgin,” whose obedience helped bring salvation to the human race.
Why is this important now? Because the culture is searching for a model of womanhood that heals rather than divides. Kirk went so far as to say, “One of the ways I believe we fix toxic feminism in America is, Mary is the solution.” And he’s right—though he may not yet realize how deep that solution truly goes. Mary’s virtues of humility, obedience, silence, and strength are precisely what our hyper-individualistic and often angry society lacks. “Have more young ladies be pious, be reverent, be full of faith, slow to anger, slow to words at times,” Kirk said. “She’s a phenomenal example.”
This perspective echoes the insights of Catholic author Dr. Carrie Gress, whose book The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing the Culture from Toxic Femininity uncovers how deeply modern culture has rejected Marian virtues. As Gress explains, today’s culture prizes “being outspoken, assertive, independent, and ambitious,” yet those qualities “did not produce the happiness she expected.” The remedy, she says, is to rediscover the Marian way—what feels “foreign” to modern women: “silence, obedience, kindness, meekness, and tenderness.” But with time, prayer, and grace, Gress insists we can begin to reclaim them.
As Catholics, we don’t just admire Mary—we venerate her, we seek her intercession, and we model our lives after hers. This isn’t idolatry; it’s imitation of the highest form. She is the New Eve, the Ark of the New Covenant, the Queen of Heaven and Earth. Her virtues are not relics of a forgotten time, but the antidote to the ills of our age.
What’s happening now—Protestant figures acknowledging Mary’s power and example—is more than a trend. It’s a moment of grace. It’s a chance for Catholics to speak boldly, to invite others to rediscover the Mother of God, and to show that in honoring her, we grow closer to Christ.
Mary is not the problem. She is the answer. She always has been. And perhaps, as even non-Catholics begin to see, she still is.
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