491 Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware ... That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: The most Blessed Virgin ...

In proclaiming the Immaculate Conception of Mary as a dogma of the Church, the pope expressed precisely and clearly that Mary was conceived free from the stain of original sin. This privilege of ...

Many Church Fathers referred to the Blessed ... Mary would have inherited original sin like all of us because her Immaculate Conception has nothing to do with her mother and everything to do ...