Popes Who Don't Believe Mary Is Sinless

(Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed are thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. ) Here is a typical prayer to Mary under the picture in the right!

Dear friends:

Have you ever dug into history and found out the evolution of Mary who became sinless officially in 1854 AD. Then in 1950 AD Pius the 12^th said, “Mary the immaculate perpetual virgin mother of God after the completion of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into the glory of heaven.”

So her elevation into Goddess has been completed in 1950 AD.

Do you realize there were 7 popes who rejected her sinlessness before 1547 AD.(at the council of Trent that the Catholic Church announced the sinlessness of Mary; the immaculate conception was first presented in the year 1140 AD ) So the elevation of man made goddess and her bodily assumption to heaven are both late developments even in Catholic's church history.

This promotion of Mary is very non-biblical indeed. Are you surprised? (Don't get me wrong, I do respect her a lot as a model of a very faithful and blessed woman, yet she can't never be equal to Trinity God. the so called "Mother" of God. )

If interested, you may also click the link below to "Let Us Reason" website for more information.

Mary's Sinlessness

At the end of the essay of above link,

...The POPES

Philip Schaff lists seven Roman bishops who rejected her sinlessness (The Creeds of Christendom [Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998], Vol. I, p. 123).  

Pope Leo 1 (440 a.d.) “The Lord Jesus Christ alone among the sons of men was born immaculate”(sermon 24 in Nativ. Dom.).

“And therefore in the general ruin of the entire human race there was but one remedy in the secret of the Divine plan which could succour the fallen, and that was that one of the sons of Adam should be born free and innocent of original transgression, to prevail for the rest both by His example and His merits. Still further, because this was not permitted by natural generation, and because there could be no offspring from our faulty stock without seed, of which the Scripture saith, '’Who can make a clean thing conceived of an unclean seed? is it not Thou who art alone?’” (Sermon 28:3) The unclean seed includes Mary. The one being from Adam who is sinless is Jesus - Pope Gelasius (492 a.d.) 

“ It belongs alone to the immaculate lamb to have no sin at all.” (Gellasii papae dicta, vol. 4, col 1241, Paris, 1671)

Pope innocent the third (1216 a.d.) “She (Eve) was produced without sin, but she brought forth in sin, she (Mary) was produced in sin, but she brought forth without sin.” ( De festo Assump., sermon 2) When the immaculate conception was first presented in the year 1140 it was opposed by Bernard of Clairvaux also Thomas Aquinas adamantly taught Mary was a sinner. This is something the Catholics need to deal with.

In fact this whole doctrine is fairly new not an apostolic tradition. It was in 1547, at the council of Trent that the Catholic Church announced the sinlessness of Mary enabling her to avoid venial sins. In 1620 Pope Paul the 5^th forbade anything contrary to the teaching of Mary's immaculate conception to be said publicly under threat of excommunication. In 1622 Pope Gregory the 15^th forbade any contradictory statements of her immaculate conception to be made in private. And so began the official elevation of this servant woman the mother of the humanity of the Lord. Until  Pope Pius IX in 1854 “Let all the children of the Catholic Church ... Proceed to worship, invoke, and pray to the most blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God, conceived without original sin"), but that the reason she never sinned at any time during her life was because she was unable to sin.” Then in 1950 Pius the 12^th said, “Mary the immaculate perpetual virgin mother of God after the completion of her earthly life was assumed body and soul into the glory of heaven.”

For discussions about some Mary Apparitions, please click the following link.

http://www.christian-witness.org/archives/cetf2004/mary_mary30.html

THE MAGIC OF MEDJUGORJE

OF all Marian shrines none is more contentious than Medjugorje

Conclusion:

...The authentic picture of Mary revealed in Scripture is the very antithesis of the elevated presumptuous version worshiped by Rome and those who are gradually being drawn into her corrupt web. The biblical Mary is demonstrably a background figure, a humble quiet Jewish servant of God and genuine follower of Christ. The great tragedy is that one billion Catholics who cling to the exalted Vatican version without biblical discerns...