Thursday, May 19, 2005

Huh?

I'm still scouring the Scriptures for evidence of this belief.....I'm still looking.....still looking.

A group of Roman Catholic and Anglican leaders studying the role of Mary, the mother of Jesus, said Monday that after years of talks they have agreed that Catholic teachings on the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption of Mary into heaven are consistent with Anglican interpretations of the Bible....

The two sides issued a joint document, "Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ," which will now be examined by the Vatican and the Anglican Communion. If the terms of the new accord are eventually accepted by top church officials — by no means a certainty — it would overcome one of the major doctrinal disagreements dividing the world's 77 million Anglicans and more than 1 billion Roman Catholics.
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3 comments:

Doug Fields said...

No dude. Roman Catholicism believes that Mary was immaculately conceived. Reason: How could God be born of a sinful human? He couldn't, so Mary must have been immaculately concieved without sin. Hence the "worship" of Mary as god-like.

Here's the official line:
In the Constitution Ineffabilis Deus of 8 December, 1854, Pius IX pronounced and defined that the Blessed Virgin Mary "in the first instance of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace granted by God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved exempt from all stain of original sin."

9:13 AM
Anonymous said...

for further clarification --

http://www.staycatholic.com/the_immaculate_conception.htm

2:16 AM
Anonymous said...

http://www.staycatholic.com/
the_immaculate_conception.
htm

2:18 AM

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