"It was fitting that she, who had seen her Son upon the cross and who had thereby received into her
heart the sword of sorrow which she had escaped in the act of giving birth to him, should look upon
him as he sits with the Father."
Thank you for locating that..... And now they say that despite the pontiff quoting it and affirming it he was "not speaking infallibly."
being sinless does NOT necessarily mean that Mary was preserved from the pains of childbirth or of other hardships.
Hardships, yes but if we consistently follow the teaching of the Roman church she has not experienced corruption or death (even Christ had to die!) so to be consistent, she must have escaped the consequences of Gen. 3: 15.
That is exactly the allegiance of the Church: to Jesus Christ and His Gospel as written by the Apostles. The Catholic Church is the ONLY Church to have a DIRECT and UNBROKEN line of FORMAL authority from the Apostles. Your "church" doesn't. The Catholic Church the ONLY one that has kept faithful to the original teachings of Christ as passed on by His Apostles, the "Deposit of Faith".
Nope it is the apostate church. I've proven from Scripture many times in here, and in this thread's locked and buried predecessor.