The
Immaculate Conception
is
often confused with the
Virgin
Birth
Pope Pius IX (1854), infallibly defined,
ex cathedra:
The Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instant of her
conception,
by a singular grace and privilege of Almighty God, and in
view
of the foreseen merits of Jesus Christ, the savior of the
human
race, was preserved free from all
stain of original sin.
