“Mary was a peasant. A poor, female, Jewish peasant. She gave birth to a son who preached all people were equal in God’s eyes, and she saw that son tortured and executed by the Roman Empire. She had a lot to revolt against.” “She didn’t revolt, though.” “But other people did. In Argentina in the 1970s, the mothers of people killed by the military used the Magnificat as their anthem, so it was banned. Francisco Franco banned it in Spain in the 1930s. It’s dangerous, a song about the poor and lowly being raised up and the rich and powerful falling.”
