Thomas Griffin 8/22/25 (For National Catholic Register)
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Everyone needs a mother, and the Catholic Church believes we also need a queen.
The Queenship of Mary has its roots in the events of the Blessed Mother’s life. It was established as a feast by Pope Pius XII in 1954. The beginning and end of the encyclical Ad Caeli Reginam (On Proclaiming the Queenship of Mary), detailing the institution of this important feast, reference the need to bring more awareness of the role of Mary in our salvation as well as the need to call upon her to aid peace among nations.
As our world continues to watch the many calamities of war around the globe, there is no better time to call on Mary as Queen, including Queen of Peace.
Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and children. He has a masters degree in theology and is a masters candidate in philosophy. Thomas is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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