10,000 Objections to Catholicism ANSWERED (Jimmy Akin) | Ep. 318
Pints With Aquinas
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The Immaculate Conception
Pope pius the ninth infallibly defined the immaculate conception in 18 54, and pope pius the twelfth defined the assumption of mary in 19 50. And it's been suggested that one reason for the timing of the definition is the fact that world war two had just happened. The church was under assault. A lot of people had lost faith. We'd just gone through the jewish holicost. Things were bad, both on the material level in europe and on the spiritual level ineurope. So it's been proposed that the reason pious twelfth chose to define the assumption just after world war two was to give a sign of hope and a spiritual rallying point
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