491 - Through the centuries the Church has become ever more aware that Mary, "full of grace" through God, was redeemed from the moment of her conception. That is what the dogma of the Immaculate Conception confesses, as Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854: The most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin.
If God can do that for Mary then why couldn’t He have done that for Jesus. You said a few posts earlier that if Mary had sinned then Jesus couldn’t be born without original sin. That is what I was trying to understand. Thanks for your reply.