This is a good article overall, NYer. Its a shame it was spoiled by this:
“The Catholic Church has always believed in the immaculate conception of Mary.”
That’s simply untrue. That notion was never held in The Church in the East and isn’t to this day. Many in the West rejected it, +Thomas Aquinas for example. The IC is made necessary by the the West’s conception of both the reality and effects of the Sin of Adam, a conception rejected by all the Fathers save Blessed Augustine. As a matter of dogma in the Latin Church it is less than 200 years old and was proclaimed by no council but by an asserted infallible declaration of Pius IX. There are those among the Orthodox who state that this doctrine, far from being true dogma, is in fact a type of Christological heresy which effectively denies Christ’s human nature as per the Council of Chalcedon.
How does the IC deny Christ's humanity, K?