of the human person from conception until natural death
Our Lady of Lourdes is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary that recalls her apparitions in 1858 in the grotto at Lourdes, France to Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared eighteen times to the fourteen-year-old Bernadette
On December 8, 1854, Bl. Pope Pius IX published the papal Bull Ineffabilis Deus, which declared that the doctrine of Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception of the BVM was dogma. “The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and in virtue…
According to the joint work entitled Mary: The Church at the Source, then Cardinal Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar provide two theological essays detailing Mary as both the embodiment of the Church and the Mother who co-operates in giving birth to the Church in the souls of believers.
Understanding the Mystery of Mary Being Conceived without Sin On 13 May 1846, during the Sixth Provincial Council of Baltimore, in the residence of Archbishop Samuel Eccleston, the bishops present…
Nature and dignity 