Tag: Immaculate Conception

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A guest on the Huckabee talk show made a throw away comment:  “Of course we [Christians] all believe in the immaculate conception.”  Not exactly. He was not the first to say this and won’t be the last.  It is a common mistake because many mix up the immaculate conception with the virgin birth.  The virgin […]

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On December 8, according to the Church calendar, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. And on December 8, 1854, in his Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaimed: We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by […]

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Gretchen Filz has a fascinating article documenting the connection of the United States of America to Mary Immaculate and the history of the choice of the United States Bishops, in the year 1846, to proclaim the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of the Immaculate Conception, as the patroness of the United States of America. […]

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In 1854, Pope Pius IX, exercising his office, solemnly proclaimed and defined the dogma that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from all […]

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Today, December 8, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, the solemn dogma declared infallibly by Pope Pius IX on December 8, 1854, in his Apostolic Constitution Ineffabilis Deus, that Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin. We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, […]

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