Faith Facts: What Do You Know?

True or False

  1. The Immaculate Conception refers to Mary's virginal conception of Jesus.
  2. The Church infallibility teaches that Mary was taken body and soul to heaven upon her death in Ephesus in 65 A.D.
  3. Nowhere in Scripture is the Blessed Virgin Mary identified as the biological mother of anyone other than Jesus.
  4. The Church no longer refers to Mary as a "mediatrix" because this teaching is incompatible with 1 Timothy 2:5."
  5. Mary was not formally given the title "Mother of the Church" until Vatican II.
  6. Because she was preserved from original sin, Mary did not need to be redeemed by her Son.
  7. Even though the Assumption was not dogmatically defined until 1950, this Marian doctrine is firmly rooted in Scripture and Tradition, including liturgical feasts dating back to the sixth century.
  8. Mary was a virgin before giving birth to Jesus, but there was nothing out of the ordinary about the birth itself.
  9. Mary is called "coredemprtix" because she was an equal partner with her Son in the redemption of mankind.
  10. Genesis 3:20, in which Eve is called "mother of all the living," has a direct bearing on Mary's role as "Mother of the Church."

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