In Delivered From All Stain , today’s first “On the Square” article, I try to explain what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception says and why Catholics can believe with confidence something that really does, in my experience baffle and annoy, and sometimes even anger, their Evangelical brothers. It has to do with differing ways of understanding the Church but also, I think, with Christian hope.
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception, celebrated this coming Wednesday, is a holy day of obligation, which suggests how seriously we are supposed to take it.
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