Whereby, I think, an additional beauty is revealed. In that the Blessed Virgin Mary, who in the life of the Church is very much like a mother, is so invested in the destiny of the Church, and in its reality as a mystical body, that she could affirm, with the utterance of a phrase, not only the integrity of Bernadette’s claims, in the instance of those apparitions, but also, by using words from the Church’s own promulgation, as they had appeared in a papal decree, not many years earlier, the very dogma that the Church had adopted with regard to her, so as to ally herself, nominally as well as essentially, with its explication of her.