More specifically, the dogma of the Immaculate Conception states "that the most Blessed Virgin ... Assumption. Jesus Christ, Son of God and Risen Lord, ascended into heaven, a sign of divine power ...

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 ...