Must be a bummer, like missing the great contributions of Thomas Aquinas to sacred theology.
I was thinking the other day about the Dubia submitted to Pope Francis, asking for clarifications that require only a yes or no answer. The first reading for the feast of the Immaculate Conception includes this:
“And the Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, thou art cursed among all cattle, and beasts of the earth: upon thy breast shalt thou go, and earth shalt thou eat all the days of thy life. [15] I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed: she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel. “ [Douay Rheims tranx]
To me, this puts it rather bluntly, you are either of “her seed” or of the devils seed. We know most directly that “her seed” refers to Jesus Christ, but in a secondary sense, Christians are also of “her seed”. While the Orthodox do honor and reverence the Blessed Mother, as do Catholics, many of the man-made christian sects think there is a third way, that of dissing Mary while still being disciples of Christ. I don’t think the passage from Genesis admits of a third way.
No direct or categorical and stringent proof of the dogma can be brought forward from Scripture. But the first scriptural passage which contains the promise of the redemption, mentions also the Mother of the Redeemer. The sentence against the first parents was accompanied by the Earliest Gospel ( Proto-evangelium ), which put enmity between the serpent and the woman : "and I will put enmity between thee and the woman and her seed; she (he) shall crush thy head and thou shalt lie in wait for her (his) heel" ( Genesis 3:15 ). The translation "she" of the Vulgate is interpretative; it originated after the fourth century, and cannot be defended critically.
http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=6056
In spite of what the catholic encyclopedia says catholics continue in this false doctrine.
Bad translation leading to bad theology.