(January 13, 2009 at 7:43 pm)CoxRox Wrote:(January 13, 2009 at 6:19 pm)DD_8630 Wrote: Actually, it's both. In Catholicism, both Mary and Jesus were born to virgins. The 'reason' for this is that, if Mary were conceived the normal way, the Original Sin™ would get passed onto Jesus.
I don't think that is right. Only Jesus is supposedly born of a virgin. Mary was supposedly born via the immaculate conception ie she was conceived without inheriting the original sin that every body else is meant to have (excluding Jesus of course whose own conception was even more remarkable- supposedly).
(January 13, 2009 at 8:16 pm)WWLD Wrote: I was raised as a catholic. Jesus was born of the virgin Mary
Mary was not. Her mother was Saint Anne and her father was Joachim
Thats what catholicism teaches anyway
Ah, my mistake. Mary's 'Immaculate Conception' was indeed special, but not because she was concieved of a virgin (i.e., her mother had sex, and thus Mary was conceived).
Pope Pius IX in 1854 spoke ex cathedra:
"We declare, pronounce and define that the doctrine which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the first instant of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace of the Omnipotent God, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of mankind, was preserved immaculate from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and therefore should firmly and constantly be believed by all the faithful."
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