Faith Facts: What Do You Know?
True or False
- The Immaculate Conception refers to Mary's virginal conception of Jesus.
- The Church infallibility teaches that Mary was taken body and soul to heaven upon her death in Ephesus in 65 A.D.
- Nowhere in Scripture is the Blessed Virgin Mary identified as the biological mother of anyone other than Jesus.
- The Church no longer refers to Mary as a "mediatrix" because this teaching is incompatible with 1 Timothy 2:5."
- Mary was not formally given the title "Mother of the Church" until Vatican II.
- Because she was preserved from original sin, Mary did not need to be redeemed by her Son.
- 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.
- Mary was a virgin before giving birth to Jesus, but there was nothing out of the ordinary about the birth itself.
- Mary is called "coredemprtix" because she was an equal partner with her Son in the redemption of mankind.
- 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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