re what was the immaculate conception maxwell c muir writes just a quick question if mary was immaculately concieved so she could be a pure vessel does this mean that she was without sin and therefore the perfect meaning sinless female human being is this why she is held so highly in the catholic church despite it s basically patriarchical structure she was immaculately conceived and so never subject to original sin but also never committed a personal sin in her whole life this was possible because of the special degree of grace granted to her by god she is regarded so highly because of her special relationship to god and everything that flows from that relationship the catholic church sees her as the new eve the fathers in the early church use this particular figure a lot eve is the mother of all the living in a genetic sense mary is the mother of all the living in the order of grace as sin came through eve so grace jesus christ came through mary
