The celebration of the feast of the Immaculate Conception - like the
doctrine itself - was a hot topic in the Fifteenth Century. The Council
of Basel (1431-1449) tried to promote the doctrine and the feast, but it
was resisted by the Dominicans. Sixtus IV - again over objections from
the Dominicans - gave "permission for a liturgical office of the
Conception (1477 and 1480)."
An irony of the Basel dispute was that Pusey used Juan de Torquemada's
tract against the doctrine in debates with Newman in the 19th century.
tom izbicki
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