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Minor correction: _Ineffabilis Deus_ was a bull of Pius IX.
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Subject: Re: [M-R] Saints of the Day 15.August
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> 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
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> >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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