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The Catholic Church faces a theological bind with papal infallibility—defined at Vatican I as the Pope being preserved from error when speaking ex cathedra on doctrines of faith or morals.
This was invoked in defining the Immaculate Conception (Mary preserved from original sin from the moment of her conception, by Christ’s merits applied preemptively).
Yet the Church insists Mary, like all humanity, needed a Savior—her preservation was a unique, anticipatory form of redemption, not exemption from needing forgiveness.
The tension is clear: if the Pope is infallible, why invent a convoluted “pre-forgiven” status for Mary instead of admitting she was forgiven like the rest of us through ordinary grace?
The Church’s greatest vulnerability lies here: its Mariology, where elaborate doctrinal gymnastics protect papal authority at the cost of straightforward biblical soteriology.
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