Mary doesn't take sides.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

National Catholic Reporter | May 28, 2004| | Copyright

* I would like to alert the reading public to approach Andrew Greeley's comments about my work on Mary, the mother of Jesus, with wariness. He distorts my position beyond recognition.

In his review of Charlene Spretnak's Missing Mary, he quotes me as saying that Mary was "passive" at Cana; noticing the lack of wine, she performed an act of self-emptying by turning to Jesus for help. I did indeed write these words, but this is not my view. It is von Balthasar's idea, which I fairly describe in a paragraph that begins, "The Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar takes ...

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