{"id":273,"date":"2013-05-27T00:22:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/uncategorised\/2013\/what-are-the-four-marian-dogmas-109243\/"},"modified":"2013-05-27T00:22:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:22:27","slug":"what-are-the-four-marian-dogmas-109243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/library\/2013\/what-are-the-four-marian-dogmas-109243\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the Four Marian Dogmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there are four dogmas of the Catholic Church, stating Mary&#8217;s personal relationship with God and her role in human salvation. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Divine Motherhood<\/span> &#8211; Mary&#8217;s divine motherhood (i.e. Mary is the Mother of God) was proclaimed at the Council of Ephesus in 431.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Perpetual Virginity<\/span> &#8211; the Catholic Church holds as dogma that Mary was and is Virgin before, in and after Christ&#8217;s birth.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Immaculate Conception<\/span> &#8211; Proclaimed as an independent dogma by Pope Pius IX in 1854, the dogma of the Immaculate Conception states &#8220;that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege from Almighty God and in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, was kept free of every stain of original sin.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">The Assumption<\/span> &#8211; This marian dogma was proclaimed by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950 on his Encyclical Munificentissimus Deus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How much do you know about these four dogmas? Visit this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/resources\/mary\/general-information\/the-four-marian-dogmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/resources\/mary\/general-information\/the-four-marian-dogmas\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> for an explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you know that there are four dogmas of the Catholic Church, stating Mary's personal relationship with God and...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.sydneycatholic.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}