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Answering Questions About the Immaculate Conception
The Immaculate Conception.For non-Catholics, this dogma of the Church may be one of the most misunderstood doctrines there is.Here are some common questions Catholics get, and how to respond to them:Question:Why does Mary have to be holy at the moment of her conception instead of being purified shortly before God chooses her to be his mother?Response:God chooses and elects those who are to cooperate in his plan of redemption from before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:4), anticipating his pl
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Dec 9th 2023
Infallibility 101: Sometimes Only A Single Sentence In A Document Is Infallible
Identifying Infallible Teachings Sometimes people ask, “Is this document infallible?”
The question is problematic because the Magisterium doesn’t issue
documents whose teaching is infallible from beginning to end. Instead,
it issues documents that contain individual propositions that are
infallible. In Ineffabilis Deus (1854) and Munificentissimus Deus (1950)—the documents that defined the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary—only a single sentence in each document was infal
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Nov 14th 2018