[wagglebee]

But it does not preclude the Immaculate Conception either.

[Frank Sheed]

I did not infer that it does, I believe, Friend.

I believe everything in the Catechism and all that Mother Church holds in Sacred Tradition, the Magisterium and of course, in Sacred Scripture. I was only trying to point out that Jo phrased things a mite too deterministically but did not mean to imply that error. Mary was, of course, conceived without original sin.

Frank