Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
Among Catholics there never has been any question of the fitness of the Immaculate Conception. In the early ages of the Church the doctrine was taken so much for granted that no one thought it necessary to define it as a dogma…. It was left for the 19th century to declare as an article of faith that Mary was sinless through the anticipated merits of her Son…. This, one of the latest of her feasts, was announced to the world on the eighth of December, 1854. Since 1846 Mary in her Immaculate Conception has been the patron of the United States.…
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