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“A garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up.” - Song of Songs 4:12

Elena has a wonderful exposition regarding the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception on her post, The Immaculate Conception and the Popes.  I was especially impressed with the following:

“The Holy Father explained the consequences of rejecting the dogma in very strong terms.  ‘…If anyone shall dare- God forbid- to think otherwise…let him know that he is condemned by his own judgment; that he has suffered shipwreck in the faith; that he is separated from the unity of the Church….‘” - Ineffabilis Deus 

And This from Pius X:

“Fifty years later, Pope St. Pius X in his encyclical Ad Diem Laetissimum (1904) explains that belief in the Immaculate Conception is a remedy for the ills which flow from modernist, secular thinking.  ‘What in fact is the starting point of the enemies of religion in spreading great and grievous errors by which the faith of so many is shaken? They begin by denying that man has fallen by sin…they regard as mere fables original sin and the evils that are its consequence.‘”  - Pius X 

“They begin by denying that man has fallen by sin…they regard as mere fables original sin and the evils that are its consequence.”