Immaculate_Conception

context: The defined dogma of the Immaculate Conception regards original sin only, saying that Mary was preserved from any stain (in Latin, macula or labes, the second of these two synonymous words being the one used in the formal definition). The proclaimed Roman Catholic dogma states "that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin." Therefore, being always free from original sin, the doctrine teaches that from her conception Mary received the sanctifying grace that would normally come with baptism after birth.
qas: answers: original sin only
question: What is the Immaculate Conception a representation of the avoidance of ?

answers: Mary was preserved from any stain (in Latin, macula or labes
question: What was Mary prevented from having to endure ?

answers: privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain
question: Who was believed to have prevented this from occurring to Mary ?

answers: Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the human race, was preserved free from all stain of original sin."
question: What was the outcome of preventing Mary from having to endure such an injustice ?

answers: sanctifying grace that would normally come with baptism after birth.
question: What normally followed the delivery of a child by a woman in Mary time period ?

context: The definition makes no declaration about the Church's belief that the Blessed Virgin was sinless in the sense of freedom from actual or personal sin. However, the Church holds that Mary was also sinless personally, "free from all sin, original or personal". The Council of Trent decreed: "If anyone shall say that a man once justified can sin no more, nor lose grace, and that therefore he who falls and sins was never truly justified; or, on the contrary, that throughout his whole life he can avoid all sins even venial sins, except by a special privilege of God, as the Church holds in regard to the Blessed Virgin: let him be anathema."
qas: answers: makes no declaration about the Church's belief that the Blessed Virgin was sinless in the sense of freedom from actual or personal sin
question: Is it believed that Mary carried no transgression which would require blame ?

answers: the Church holds that Mary was also sinless personally, "free from all sin, original or personal
question: How did the Church view Mary in regards to her personal sins ? 

answers: let him be anathema."
question: What important announcement was made by the ecumenical council in  regards to the decision on Mary ?

answers: The Council of Trent
question: What was the name of the ecumenical council that made the decision ?

context: The doctrine of the immaculate conception (Mary being conceived free from original sin) is not to be confused with her virginal conception of her son Jesus. This misunderstanding of the term immaculate conception is frequently met in the mass media. Catholics believe that Mary was not the product of a virginal conception herself but was the daughter of a human father and mother, traditionally known by the names of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne. In 1677, the Holy See condemned the belief that Mary was virginally conceived, which had been a belief surfacing occasionally since the 4th century. The Church celebrates the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (when Mary was conceived free from original sin) on 8 December, exactly nine months before celebrating the Nativity of Mary. The feast of the Annunciation (which commemorates the virginal conception and the Incarnation of Jesus) is celebrated on 25 March, nine months before Christmas Day.
qas: answers: doctrine of the immaculate conception (Mary being conceived free from original sin) is not to be confused with her virginal conception of her son Jesus
question: Is the view of the impregnation of Mary's pregnancy the same as the one held for the birth of her first child ?

answers: Catholics believe that Mary was not the product of a virginal conception herself but was the daughter of a human father and mother
question: What is the view held at the Vatican regarding how Mary was actually given life into the world ?

answers: since the 4th century
question: When did these contradictory views start to emerge ?

answers: 1677, the Holy See condemned the belief that Mary was virginally conceived,
question: When were contradictory views to  the belief of Mary's parentage struck down ?

answers: Saint Joachim and Saint Anne
question: Who were the parents of Mary believed to be ?

context: Another misunderstanding is that, by her immaculate conception, Mary did not need a saviour. When defining the dogma in Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX explicitly affirmed that Mary was redeemed in a manner more sublime. He stated that Mary, rather than being cleansed after sin, was completely prevented from contracting Original Sin in view of the foreseen merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race. In Luke 1:47, Mary proclaims: "My spirit has rejoiced in God my Saviour." This is referred to as Mary's pre-redemption by Christ. Since the Second Council of Orange against semi-pelagianism, the Catholic Church has taught that even had man never sinned in the Garden of Eden and was sinless, he would still require God's grace to remain sinless.
qas: answers: dogma in Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX explicitly affirmed that Mary was redeemed in a manner more sublime
question: What was explained by the man  Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti who later became leader of the Holy Roman Church ?

answers: Another misunderstanding is that, by her immaculate conception, Mary did not need a saviour
question: What did Mary supposedly not require that everyone else also required and why was this so ?

answers: Catholic Church has taught that even had man never sinned in the Garden of Eden and was sinless, he would still require God's grace to remain sinless.
question: According to the teaching of the Catholic religion is a savior for the world needed ?

answers: Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race.
question: What is the child of Mary known to be famous for according to  Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti ?

context: Mary's complete sinlessness and concomitant exemption from any taint from the first moment of her existence was a doctrine familiar to Greek theologians of Byzantium. Beginning with St. Gregory Nazianzen, his explanation of the "purification" of Jesus and Mary at the circumcision (Luke 2:22) prompted him to consider the primary meaning of "purification" in Christology (and by extension in Mariology) to refer to a perfectly sinless nature that manifested itself in glory in a moment of grace (e.g., Jesus at his Baptism). St. Gregory Nazianzen designated Mary as "prokathartheisa (prepurified)." Gregory likely attempted to solve the riddle of the Purification of Jesus and Mary in the Temple through considering the human natures of Jesus and Mary as equally holy and therefore both purified in this manner of grace and glory. Gregory's doctrines surrounding Mary's purification were likely related to the burgeoning commemoration of the Mother of God in and around Constantinople very close to the date of Christmas. Nazianzen's title of Mary at the Annunciation as "prepurified" was subsequently adopted by all theologians interested in his Mariology to justify the Byzantine equivalent of the Immaculate Conception. This is especially apparent in the Fathers St. Sophronios of Jerusalem and St. John Damascene, who will be treated below in this article at the section on Church Fathers. About the time of Damascene, the public celebration of the "Conception of St. Ann [i.e., of the Theotokos in her womb]" was becoming popular. After this period, the "purification" of the perfect natures of Jesus and Mary would not only mean moments of grace and glory at the Incarnation and Baptism and other public Byzantine liturgical feasts, but purification was eventually associated with the feast of Mary's very conception (along with her Presentation in the Temple as a toddler) by Orthodox authors of the 2nd millennium (e.g., St. Nicholas Cabasilas and Joseph Bryennius).
qas: answers: Greek theologians of Byzantium
question: What Empire held  Grecian teachers of the virginity of Mary's conception ?

answers: St. Gregory Nazianzen, his explanation of the "purification" of Jesus and Mary
question: Who gave a reason for the purging of evil for the Blessed Virgin and her first child ?

answers: the circumcision
question: What procedure was being performed while he gave his reasoning ?

answers: Luke
question: Who was compelled to write of this instance that was also an author of one of the book of the Bible ?

answers: purification was eventually associated with the feast of Mary's very conception
question: What became associated with the celebration of Mary's inception in the womb ? 

context: It is admitted that the doctrine as defined by Pius IX was not explicitly mooted before the 12th century. It is also agreed that "no direct or categorical and stringent proof of the dogma can be brought forward from Scripture". But it is claimed that the doctrine is implicitly contained in the teaching of the Fathers. Their expressions on the subject of the sinlessness of Mary are, it is pointed out, so ample and so absolute that they must be taken to include original sin as well as actual. Thus in the first five centuries such epithets as "in every respect holy", "in all things unstained", "super-innocent", and "singularly holy" are applied to her; she is compared to Eve before the fall, as ancestress of a redeemed people; she is "the earth before it was accursed". The well-known words of St. Augustine (d. 430) may be cited: "As regards the mother of God," he says, "I will not allow any question whatever of sin." It is true that he is here speaking directly of actual or personal sin. But his argument is that all men are sinners; that they are so through original depravity; that this original depravity may be overcome by the grace of God, and he adds that he does not know but that Mary may have had sufficient grace to overcome sin "of every sort" (omni ex parte).
qas: answers: include original sin as well as actual. Thus in the first five centuries such epithets as "
question: What proof do some believe is offered as to proof of Mary being the ultimate concept of pure?

answers: in every respect holy", "in all things unstained", "super-innocent", and "singularly holy" are applied to her
question: What phrases were used to describe Mary ?

answers: Eve before the fall
question: Who is often held as the model for all things holy and pure that is not Mary ?

answers: St. Augustine (d. 430) may be cited: "As regards the mother of God," he says, "I will not allow any question whatever of sin.
question: Who refused to hear any contradictory views about Mary and her perceived inception ?

answers: his argument is that all men are sinners;
question: What did this person also state about all of mankind in regards to wayward transgressions  ?

context: Although the doctrine of Mary's Immaculate Conception appears only later among Latin (and particularly Frankish) theologians, it became ever more manifest among Byzantine theologians reliant on Gregory Nazianzen's Mariology in the Medieval or Byzantine East. Although hymnographers and scholars, like the Emperor Justinian I, were accustomed to call Mary "prepurified" in their poetic and credal statements, the first point of departure for more fully commenting on Nazianzen's meaning occurs in Sophronius of Jerusalem. In other places Sophronius explains that the Theotokos was already immaculate, when she was "purified" at the Annunciation and goes so far as to note that John the Baptist is literally "holier than all 'Men' born of woman" since Mary's surpassing holiness signifies that she was holier than even John after his sanctification in utero. Sophronius' teaching is augmented and incorporated by St. John Damascene (d. 749/750). John, besides many passages wherein he extolls the Theotokos for her purification at the Annunciation, grants her the unique honor of "purifying the waters of baptism by touching them." This honor was most famously and firstly attributed to Christ, especially in the legacy of Nazianzen. As such, Nazianzen's assertion of parallel holiness between the prepurified Mary and purified Jesus of the New Testament is made even more explicit in Damascene in his discourse on Mary's holiness to also imitate Christ's baptism at the Jordan. The Damascene's hymnongraphy and De fide Orthodoxa explicitly use Mary's "pre purification" as a key to understanding her absolute holiness and unsullied human nature. In fact, Damascene (along with Nazianzen) serves as the source for nearly all subsequent promotion of Mary's complete holiness from her Conception by the "all pure seed" of Joachim and the womb "wider than heaven" of St. Ann.
qas: answers: Mary's Immaculate Conception appears only later among Latin (and particularly Frankish) theologians
question: Where did the majority of the concepts of Mary's birth show themselves the most ?

answers: to call Mary "prepurified"
question: In what way did this Ruler refer to Mary  in his writings ?

answers: Emperor Justinian I,
question: What Byzantine Ruler ho ruled from from 527 to 565 was also a well trained thinker of concepts ?

answers: she was "purified" at the Annunciation
question: What event happened to Theotokos that was of significant religious note ?

answers: holier than all 'Men' born of woman
question: How did some view the the person whose name includes a Christian rite of passage from the Bible? 

context: By 750, the feast of her conception was widely celebrated in the Byzantine East, under the name of the Conception (active) of Saint Anne. In the West it was known as the feast of the Conception (passive) of Mary, and was associated particularly with the Normans, whether these introduced it directly from the East or took it from English usage. The spread of the feast, by now with the adjective "Immaculate" attached to its title, met opposition on the part of some, on the grounds that sanctification was possible only after conception. Critics included Saints Bernard of Clairvaux, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas. Other theologians defended the expression "Immaculate Conception", pointing out that sanctification could be conferred at the first moment of conception in view of the foreseen merits of Christ, a view held especially by Franciscans.
qas: answers: the feast of her conception was widely celebrated in the Byzantine East
question: What was widely observed in the eastern portion of the Byzantine world ?

answers: under the name of the Conception (active) of Saint Anne
question: What was the name of this festival ?

answers: In the West it was known as the feast of the Conception (passive) of Mary, and was associated particularly with the Normans
question: Was there anything in similarity that happened in the Western portion of the Empire ? If so who was it supported by?

answers: Critics included Saints Bernard of Clairvaux, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.
question: Who was against all of the celebrations of Mary 's her birth ?

answers: out that sanctification could be conferred at the first moment of conception in view of the foreseen merits of Christ, a view held especially by Franciscans.
question: According to some when is is possible for a Sanctified Mary to have emerged ?

context: On 28 February 1476, Pope Sixtus IV, authorized those dioceses that wished to introduce the feast to do so, and introduced it to his own diocese of Rome in 1477, with a specially composed Mass and Office of the feast. With his bull Cum praeexcelsa of 28 February 1477, in which he referred to the feast as that of the Conception of Mary, without using the word "Immaculate", he granted indulgences to those who would participate in the specially composed Mass or Office on the feast itself or during its octave, and he used the word "immaculate" of Mary, but applied instead the adjective "miraculous" to her conception. On 4 September 1483, referring to the feast as that of "the Conception of Immaculate Mary ever Virgin", he condemned both those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that the "glorious and immaculate mother of God was conceived without the stain of original sin" and those who called it mortally sinful and heretical to hold that "the glorious Virgin Mary was conceived with original sin", since, he said, "up to this time there has been no decision made by the Roman Church and the Apostolic See." This decree was reaffirmed by the Council of Trent.
qas: answers: authorized those dioceses that wished to introduce the feast to do so, and introduced it to his own diocese of Rome in 1477
question: What happened on the final day of the month of love that was of significance was authorized by the Holy Roman Church leader ?

answers: Pope Sixtus IV, authorized those dioceses
question: Who was the Holy Roman Church leader that authorized the change ?

answers: with a specially composed Mass and Office of the feast. With his bull Cum praeexcelsa of 28 February 1477
question: What document made the authorization official ?

answers: but applied instead the adjective "miraculous" to her conception.
question: What word substitution did he use in the authorization to appease all of the worshipers and view points when speaking of the inception of Mary  ?

answers: mortally sinful
question: What was the opposite of a sinner who committed a venial type? It would be the most grave type of all . 

context: In 1839 Mariano Spada (1796 - 1872), professor of theology at the Roman College of Saint Thomas, published Esame Critico sulla dottrina dell’ Angelico Dottore S. Tommaso di Aquino circa il Peccato originale, relativamente alla Beatissima Vergine Maria [A critical examination of the doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor, regarding original sin with respect to the Most Blessed Virgin Mary], in which Aquinas is interpreted not as treating the question of the Immaculate Conception later formulated in the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus but rather the sanctification of the fetus within Mary's womb. Spada furnished an interpretation whereby Pius IX was relieved of the problem of seeming to foster a doctrine not in agreement with the Aquinas' teaching. Pope Pius IX would later appoint Spada Master of the Sacred Palace in 1867.
qas: answers: published Esame Critico sulla dottrina dell’ Angelico Dottore S. Tommaso di Aquino circa il Peccato originale, relativamente alla Beatissima Vergine Maria
question: What did a teacher of religion  from the college that was named after a Dominican friar do in 1839 of historical note ?

answers: appoint Spada Master of the Sacred Palace in 1867
question: What position was the teacher later given by the Holy Roman Church ?

answers: Pope Pius IX
question: Who gave the teacher the new job ?

answers: Mariano Spada
question: Who was the teacher who committed the act  ?

answers: Pius IX was relieved of the problem of seeming to foster a doctrine not in agreement with the Aquinas' teaching.
question: What  problem did the teacher's publication solve for the Holy Roman leader with act that was committed  to do in response to the actions of the teacher  ?

context: It seems to have been St Bernard of Clairvaux who, in the 12th century, explicitly raised the question of the Immaculate Conception. A feast of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin had already begun to be celebrated in some churches of the West. St Bernard blames the canons of the metropolitan church of Lyon for instituting such a festival without the permission of the Holy See. In doing so, he takes occasion to repudiate altogether the view that the conception of Mary was sinless. It is doubtful, however, whether he was using the term "conception" in the same sense in which it is used in the definition of Pope Pius IX. Bernard would seem to have been speaking of conception in the active sense of the mother's cooperation, for in his argument he says: "How can there be absence of sin where there is concupiscence (libido)?" and stronger expressions follow, showing that he is speaking of the mother and not of the child.
qas: answers: St Bernard of Clairvaux
question: Who began to query the position of the conception of Mary following the 11th century ?

answers: St Bernard blames the canons of the metropolitan church of Lyon for instituting such a festival without the permission of the Holy See.
question: Who did the query starter lay blame upon for the festivals that surrounded Mary's inception ?

answers: How can there be absence of sin where there is concupiscence (libido)?
question: What did the query starter believe to be the ultimate difficulty in accepting  the a virgin conception of Mary ?

answers: conception in the active sense of the mother's cooperation
question: What did the query starter believe had been done by Mary's direct  maternal line that contradict the conception theory of immaculate for Mary ?

answers: instituting such a festival without the permission of the Holy See
question: Did the query starter believe that the festival for Mary's conception had authorization to be held ?

context: The celebrated John Duns Scotus (d. 1308), a Friar Minor like Saint Bonaventure, argued, on the contrary, that from a rational point of view it was certainly as little derogatory to the merits of Christ to assert that Mary was by him preserved from all taint of sin, as to say that she first contracted it and then was delivered. Proposing a solution to the theological problem of reconciling the doctrine with that of universal redemption in Christ, he argued that Mary's immaculate conception did not remove her from redemption by Christ; rather it was the result of a more perfect redemption granted her because of her special role in salvation history.
qas: answers: that from a rational point of view it was certainly as little derogatory to the merits of Christ
question: What did the the monk of minor believe to be true of Mary ?

answers: to assert that Mary was by him preserved from all taint of sin, as to say that she first contracted it and then was delivered.
question: What point did his argument attempt to bring to the masses ?

answers: Proposing a solution to the theological problem of reconciling the doctrine with that of universal redemption in Christ
question: What did the monk of minor believe could alleviate the tension in the matter of the 

answers: immaculate conception did not remove her from redemption by Christ;
question: What consequences did he believe that this would have on Mary's reputation ?

answers: rather it was the result of a more perfect redemption granted her because of her special role in salvation history.
question: How did monk of minor explain how the change in reputation could be of benefit to Mary ?

context: Popular opinion remained firmly behind the celebration of Mary's conception. In 1439, the Council of Basel, which is not reckoned an ecumenical council, stated that belief in the immaculate conception of Mary is in accord with the Catholic faith. By the end of the 15th century the belief was widely professed and taught in many theological faculties, but such was the influence of the Dominicans, and the weight of the arguments of Thomas Aquinas (who had been canonised in 1323 and declared "Doctor Angelicus" of the Church in 1567) that the Council of Trent (1545–63)—which might have been expected to affirm the doctrine—instead declined to take a position.
qas: answers: Popular opinion remained firmly behind the celebration of Mary's conception.
question: Where did the mass majority stand in relation to having or not having the Mary inception festivals ?

answers: stated that belief in the immaculate conception of Mary is in accord with the Catholic faith.
question: How did the Holy Roman Church rule on the matter of the festivals ?

answers: end of the 15th century the belief was widely professed and taught in many theological faculties
question: Was the practce behind the meaning of the Mary inception festivals taught at Universities of theology ?

answers: Thomas Aquinas (who had been canonised in 1323
question: In what year was the famous friar named Tom given a position as a saint of the Holy Roman Catholic Church ? 

answers: declared "Doctor Angelicus" of the Church in 1567
question: What happened to Tom at one of the 1567 that changed his title ?

context: The papal bull defining the dogma, Ineffabilis Deus, mentioned in particular the patrististic interpretation of Genesis 3:15 as referring to a woman, Mary, who would be eternally at enmity with the evil serpent and completely triumphing over him. It said the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's "wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence" "in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world; in the ladder which Jacob saw reaching from the earth to heaven, by whose rungs the angels of God ascended and descended, and on whose top the Lord himself leaned; in that bush which Moses saw in the holy place burning on all sides, which was not consumed or injured in any way but grew green and blossomed beautifully; in that impregnable tower before the enemy, from which hung a thousand bucklers and all the armor of the strong; in that garden enclosed on all sides, which cannot be violated or corrupted by any deceitful plots; in that resplendent city of God, which has its foundations on the holy mountains; in that most august temple of God, which, radiant with divine splendours, is full of the glory of God; and in very many other biblical types of this kind."
qas: answers: papal bull defining the dogma, Ineffabilis Deus
question: What holy document takes the view of Mary back to the creation of man and woman ?

answers: Genesis 3:15
question: What specific part the Bible does this document reference for Mary ?

answers: the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's "wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence
question: According to the document what did the forebears already have knowledge of before Mary came about ?

answers: in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world
question: Where was Mary represented (according to the Holy document ) on the vessel that wandered the sea for forty days and forty nights ?

context: Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Christians often object to the dogmatic declaration of her immaculate conception as an "over-elaboration" of the faith and because they see it as too closely connected with a particular interpretation of the doctrine of ancestral sin. All the same, the historical and authentic tradition of Mariology in Byzantium took its historical point of departure from Sophronios, Damascene, and their imitators. The most famous Eastern Orthodox theologian to imply Mary's Immaculate Conception was St. Gregory Palamas. Though many passages from his works were long known to extol and attribute to Mary a Christlike holiness in her human nature, traditional objections to Palamas' disposition toward the Immaculate Conception typically rely on a poor understanding of his doctrine of "the purification of Mary" at the Annunciation. Not only did he explicitly cite St. Gregory Nazianzen for his understanding of Jesus' purification at His baptism and Mary's at the Annunciation, but Theophanes of Nicaea, Joseph Bryennius, and Gennadios Scholarios all explicitly placed Mary's Conception as the first moment of her all-immaculate participation in the divine energies to such a degree that she was always completely without spot and graced. In addition to Emperor Manuel II and Gennadius Scholarius, St. Mark of Ephesus also fervently defended Mary's title as "prepurified" against the Dominican, Manuel Calecas, who was perhaps promoting thomistic Mariology that denied Mary's all-holiness from the first moment of her existence.
qas: answers: Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Christians often object to the dogmatic declaration of her immaculate conception
question: What sect often stands in disagreement over the virginal inception of Mary ?

answers: dogmatic declaration of her immaculate conception as an "over-elaboration"
question: What does this group believe of the story of a Virgin mother for Mary and those who follow its teaching ?

answers: because they see it as too closely connected with a particular interpretation of the doctrine of ancestral sin.
question: What in particular does the group feels is impossible to believe ?

answers: took its historical point of departure from Sophronios, Damascene, and their imitators.
question: What did this theological study do to set itself apart from the other groups ?

answers: Mariology
question: What is the theological study of Mary called ?

context: Martin Luther, who initiated the Protestant Reformation, said: "Mother Mary, like us, was born in sin of sinful parents, but the Holy Spirit covered her, sanctified and purified her so that this child was born of flesh and blood, but not with sinful flesh and blood. The Holy Spirit permitted the Virgin Mary to remain a true, natural human being of flesh and blood, just as we. However, he warded off sin from her flesh and blood so that she became the mother of a pure child, not poisoned by sin as we are. For in that moment when she conceived, she was a holy mother filled with the Holy Spirit and her fruit is a holy pure fruit, at once God and truly man, in one person." Some Lutherans, such as the members of the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church, support the doctrine.
qas: answers: Martin Luther
question: Who is the person that started the religion that separated itself from the Catholic Church in the 17th century ?

answers: Protestant Reformation
question: What did he do that sparked the separation from the Catholic Church  ?

answers: Mother Mary, like us, was born in sin of sinful parents, but the Holy Spirit covered her, sanctified and purified her
question: What did this leader of change believe of the conception of Mary ?

answers: this child was born of flesh and blood, but not with sinful flesh and blood.
question: What did Mary's child avoid according to the leader of the separation ? 

answers: Some Lutherans, such as the members of the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church, support the doctrine.
question: What particular sect is a patron of this belief ?

context: The report "Mary: Faith and Hope in Christ", by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission, concluded that the teaching about Mary in the two definitions of the Assumption and the Immaculate Conception can be said to be consonant with the teaching of the Scriptures and the ancient common traditions. But the report expressed concerns that the Roman Catholic dogmatic definitions of these concepts implies them to be "revealed by God", stating: "The question arises for Anglicans, however, as to whether these doctrines concerning Mary are revealed by God in a way which must be held by believers as a matter of faith."
qas: answers: Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission
question: What was written by the a all inclusive group convened by the holy church centered in Rome ?

answers: The report "Mary: Faith and Hope in Christ"
question: What document did this group create once it was convened ?

answers: Assumption and the Immaculate Conception can be said to be consonant with the teaching of the Scriptures and the ancient common traditions.
question: What was the final conclusion reached in the report by the group ?

answers: The question arises for Anglicans, however, as to whether these doctrines concerning Mary are revealed by God in a way which must be held
question: What type of interpretation did the group believe was of concern in regard to Mary ?

answers: teaching about Mary in the two definitions
question: What did the document attempt to clarify ?

context: Some Western writers claim that the immaculate conception of Mary is a teaching of Islam. Thus, commenting in 1734 on the passage in the Qur'an, "I have called her Mary; and I commend her to thy protection, and also her issue, against Satan driven away with stones", George Sale stated: "It is not improbable that the pretended immaculate conception of the virgin Mary is intimated in this passage. For according to a tradition of Mohammed, every person that comes into the world, is touched at his birth by the devil, and therefore cries out, Mary and her son only excepted; between whom, and the evil spirit God placed a veil, so that his touch did not reach them. And for this reason they say, neither of them were guilty of any sin, like the rest of the children of Adam."
qas: answers: claim that the immaculate conception of Mary is a teaching of Islam.
question: What  religion is credited by some authors from the west for initiating the story of the conceiving of Mary ?

answers: Mary and her son only excepted; between whom, and the evil spirit God placed a veil, so that his touch did not reach them.
question: According to the teaching of this other religion what occurred to Mary during the birth of her first child ?

answers: every person that comes into the world, is touched at his birth by the devil
question: What does this other religion also state  happens  to everyone besides Mary and her First born child  ?

answers: every person that comes into the world, is touched at his birth by the devil, and therefore cries out,
question: What does the event cause to happen to everyone but Mary and her first born child ?

answers: passage in the Qur'an, "I have called her Mary; and I commend her to thy protection, and also her issue, against Satan driven away with stones
question: What do these authors use in the form of proof for credit given to the other religion  ?

context: Others have rejected that the doctrine of Immaculate Conception exists in Islam, the Quranic account does not confirm the Immaculate Conception exclusively for Mary as in Islam every human child is born pure and immaculate, her sinless birth is thus independent of the Christian docrtrine of original sin as no such doctrine exists in Islam. Moreover, Hannah's prayer in the Quran for her child to remain protected from Satan (Shayṭān) was said after it had already been born, not before and expresses a natural concern any righteous parent would have. The Muslim tradition or hadith, which states that the only children born without the "touch of Satan," were Mary and Jesus. should therefore not be taken in isolation from the Quran, and is to be interpreted within the specific context of exonerating Mary and her child from the charges that were made against them and is not a general statement. The specific mention of Mary and Jesus in this hadith may also be taken to represent a class of people, in keeping with the Arabic language and the Quranic verse [O Satan] surely thou shalt have no power over My servants, except such of the erring ones as choose to follow thee (15:42)
qas: answers: Others have rejected that the doctrine of Immaculate Conception exists in Islam
question: Does everyone agree on the credit that should be given for the story of Mary's inception ?

answers: in Islam every human child is born pure and immaculate
question: What does the book of Muslim faith state in regards to how every person is born ?

answers: her sinless birth is thus independent of the Christian docrtrine of original sin as no such doctrine exists in Islam
question: Does this view contradict the belief that Mary was also born to a virgin mother ?

answers: Muslim tradition or hadith, which states that the only children born without the "touch of Satan," were Mary and Jesus.
question: What view did the Qua-ran take on the sinful ways in which Mary could have been conceived ?

answers: Hannah's prayer in the Quran for her child to remain protected from Satan
question: What is the name of the prayer that is listed in the Qua-ran  is used to enact a safeguard on kids from the  the devil ?

context: Further claims were made that the Roman Catholic Church derives its doctrine from the Islamic teaching. In volume 5 of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in 1788, Edward Gibbon wrote: "The Latin Church has not disdained to borrow from the Koran the immaculate conception of his virgin mother." That he was speaking of her immaculate conception by her mother, not of her own virginal conception of Jesus, is shown by his footnote: "In the xiith century the immaculate conception was condemned by St. Bernard as a presumptuous novelty." In the aftermath of the definition of the dogma in 1854, this charge was repeated: "Strange as it may appear, that the doctrine which the church of Rome has promulgated, with so much pomp and ceremony, 'for the destruction of all heresies, and the confirmation of the faith of her adherents', should have its origin in the Mohametan Bible; yet the testimony of such authorities as Gibbon, and Sale, and Forster, and Gagnier, and Maracci, leave no doubt as to the marvellous fact."
qas: answers: The Latin Church has not disdained to borrow from the Koran the immaculate conception of his virgin mother
question: What did the writer of a 1788 multi-volumed text say concerning plagiarism and the Roman Catholic Church ?

answers: Edward Gibbon
question: Who is the author of the texts entailed in the fifth part of the the collection about the Roman Catholic Church ?

answers: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
question: What was the group of volumes titled ?

answers: Mohametan Bible
question: Where does the author state that the Roman Catholic Church received her facts and confirmations ?

context: The Roman Missal and the Roman Rite Liturgy of the Hours naturally includes references to Mary's immaculate conception in the feast of the Immaculate Conception. An example is the antiphon that begins: "Tota pulchra es, Maria, et macula originalis non est in te" (You are all beautiful, Mary, and the original stain [of sin] is not in you. Your clothing is white as snow, and your face is like the sun. You are all beautiful, Mary, and the original stain [of sin] is not in you. You are the glory of Jerusalem, you are the joy of Israel, you give honour to our people. You are all beautiful, Mary.) On the basis of the original Gregorian chant music, polyphonic settings have been composed by Anton Bruckner, Pablo Casals, Maurice Duruflé, Grzegorz Gerwazy Gorczycki, no:Ola Gjeilo, José Maurício Nunes Garcia, and Nikolaus Schapfl,
qas: answers: Your clothing is white as snow,
question: What color garment is used in traditional chants to represent the purity of Mary's conception ?

answers: The Roman Missal
question: The rituals for the correct way to enjoy Mass is listed in what text ?

answers: polyphonic settings have been composed
question: What type of  melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic changes have been made by composers but are based on the works that are monophonic and  unaccompanied sacred song?

answers: Roman Rite Liturgy of the Hours
question: What official writings give specific prayers for each hours of the day for Catholics ?

context: The popularity of this particular representation of The Immaculate Conception spread across the rest of Europe, and has since remained the best known artistic depiction of the concept: in a heavenly realm, moments after her creation, the spirit of Mary (in the form of a young woman) looks up in awe at (or bows her head to) God. The moon is under her feet and a halo of twelve stars surround her head, possibly a reference to "a woman clothed with the sun" from Revelation 12:1-2. Additional imagery may include clouds, a golden light, and cherubs. In some paintings the cherubim are holding lilies and roses, flowers often associated with Mary.
qas: answers: in a heavenly realm, moments after her creation, the spirit of Mary (in the form of a young woman) looks up in awe at (or bows her head to) God
question: What became very popular symbol among the who believed Mary had a Virgin for a mother ? 

answers: moon is under her feet
question: What does Mary stand upon in this symbol?

answers: a halo of twelve stars surround her head
question: What does Mary where atop her hair that twinkles in the symbol ?

answers: clouds, a golden light, and cherubs. In some paintings the cherubim are holding lilies and roses, flowers often associated with Mary.
question: What else can be found in the symbol with Mary that may vary in different versions ?