YLSD 6201: Mariology and Popular Piety

An investigation of the Church's Marian doctrine revealed in Sacred Scripture and Tradition, taught by the authoritative Magisterium, given expression by the sense of the faithful, and treated in ecumenical dialogue. To study those diverse cultic expressions which in the context of the Church's faith are inspired not primarily by the Sacred Liturgy but by forms deriving from a particular culture of form of popular devotion.