“He said Pius IX, despite his enthusiasm, welcomed the idea of consulting with the bishops of the world, who expressed their agreement, leading him to finally proclaim the dogma.”
Should have consulted with God.
Who said he didn’t?
“Should have consulted with God.”
that was my thought and then go back and read his scriptures again.
......French historian and professor Louis Baunard said that while gazing upon the Mediterranean from the city, “the Pope mediated on remarks made to him by Cardinal Luigi Lambruschini: Holy Father, you will not be able to heal the world unless you proclaim the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. Only this dogmatic definition will reestablish the meaning of the Christian truths and bring minds back from the paths of naturalism upon which they have become lost.”
You may recall that the modernists were just about to seize on the publication of "Origin of the Species," as a definite repudiation of the supernatural. Against this was the decision by the pope to hurl into the teeth of this repudiation of Divine Providence the claim that God became man as the child of a devout Jewish girl in an obscure village in a backward province. A pure soul was created in an ordinary human being who was thereby able to greet the Holy Spirit with that unconditional love that God had wished to receive from our first parents and to bear the most extraordinary child every born, the flesh of her flesh ,who was God's love made manifest ways that even you and I can understand.