How devotion to the Mother of God helps us to better know God as 'Our Father'

Carol Kellas, writing from Croydon to the Times’ Letters page recently commented on the exciting idea pitched by the Anglican Archbishop of York that the Church should re-think calling God our “Father”.  The Most Rev. Stephen Cottrell wanted to represent those people who had had poor fathers. For them the association might be toxic.

“Sir (replied Carol), I’m surprised that Anglicans should find “Our Father” problematic owing to the existence of abusive fathers. We Catholics have no difficulty with “Hail Mary” even if our mothers were a nightmare.”