The belief among Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox that Mary remained a virgin her entire life, never having sexual relations with Joseph after the birth of Christ. Most Protestants object to this doctrine believing that the Bible teaches that Mary had other children and that this doctrine arose out of a philosophical disdain for the […]

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(Latin vulgo, “to make common”)
The fourth century Latin translation of the Bible produced by Jerome after being commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of old Latin translations. Jerome produced the Old Testament portion of this translation, not from the Greek Septuagint, but from the original Hebrew. The Vulgate became the […]

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Describes the rule of faith proposed by St. Vincent of Lerins in the fifth century A.D. which seeks a universal consent of the faith that bears the mark of antiquity—ubique, semper, omnibus (”everywhere, always, all”). If one’s faith did not meet this criteria, it was not considered “catholic” (that of the true, “universal” church).
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