There are four dogmas stating Mary's personal relationship with God and her role in human salvation . 1) Divine Motherhood. Mary's divine motherhood was proclaimed at the Council of Ephesus in 431.

Certainly the doctrine is understood to be part of Pope Pius IX’s plan in 1854, when he proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception (i.e., that the Virgin Mary, as well as Jesus, was not ...

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith granted a nihil obstat of Marian devotion surrounding the alleged apparitions of ...

This year is the 170th anniversary of the promulgation of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX in his encyclical Ineffabilis Deus (1854), which declared that the Virgin Mary ...

Holy Mary, Mother of God, is a liturgical celebration that commemorates the dogma of Mary's divine motherhood over Jesus. On this day, take a few minutes to say this prayer.

The dogmas of the Immaculate Conception (1854) and the Assumption of Mary (1950) cannot be proved from Scripture. Nor do the first four centuries of the Church supply any foundation for such ...

St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was strongly tempted one night to stay away from divine office in chapel the next morning. He knew that the day would be Aug. 14, the vigil of the Feast of the ...