My work interrogates the contemporary Catholic Church and its teachings on sex and gender as they manifest in the Virgin Mary. Mary’s body is physically present in the daily lives of many Catholics. She is found in statues on walls and in gardens, pinned on car visors, and worn on medallions; however, her presence is not reflected in the laws of the Catholic Church. Women cannot be ordained priests and do not have a voice in the Vatican. The teachings on sexual ethics prevent women from having physical and reproductive autonomy, and discourage female pleasure in almost every circumstance. My work points to this discrepancy, and questions how the church can simultaneously worship (without calling it worship) a woman while actively preventing women from having equal space within the church. By extension, this work also examines these same practices in the current political climate, where feminine power is scarce.