medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The Immaculate Conception was officially taught by Pius X
in the bull _Ineffabilis Deus_ in 1854. It probably cannot
be said to have been taught infallibly because the doctrine
of papal infallibility was not made a matter of dogma until
the First Vatican Council of 1869-1870.
The Assumption is indeed the only case where the pope has
spoken infallibly. In that case, the pope was Pius XII,
the bull was _Munificentissimus Deus_, and the date was 1950.
-Stephen Allen
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At 12:42 AM 08/15/2003 +0200, Erik Drigsdahl wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval
religion and culture
>
>If I remember correctly was the "infallible" pronouncement
>about the *Immaculate Conception* (in 1851? also from memory,
>although I have at home the offprint original of the
Officium,
>printed separately in Rome by the Vatican that year, but like
>Phyllis and many others am I also on vacation, and cannot
check
>it out). I guess we will have to await her return (I mean,
>the return of Phyllis;-)
>Erik
>
>> Today (15. August) is the feast day of:
>>
>> The Assumption of the Virgin Mary (1st cent.) The
>> deathday of the Virgin
>> Mary and her principal feast; her bodily assumption
>> to heaven was widely
>> assumed in the Latin Church in the Middle Ages, but
>> only became a point of
>> Roman Catholic doctrine in the 1870s, if I remember
>> correctly the only
>> "infallible" pronouncement ever made by a pope.
>>
>>Dr. Phyllis Jestice
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