They also have difficulties with Catholic belief in her immaculate conception - the idea, formally promulgated in 1854, that Mary was free from the stain of original sin from the moment of her own conception - and with her assumption, body and soul, into heaven at the end of her life, which the Catholic church laid down as official doctrine as recently as 1950.
The idea of immaculate conception is huge.
So, if you thought the phrase "Immaculate Conception" referred to the idea of Mary conceiving Jesus without having sex, consider yourself Sunday-schooled. .
Offering a surprisingly disheveled picture of Angelica, who in paintings usually appears calm and immaculate, the print conveys ideas about the source of her intellect.
Michelangelo, who had been strongly influenced by the Dominican Fra Girolamo Savonarola in Florence, is using the picture to defend the Maculist point of view, a philosophy of the Dominican order rejecting the idea of the Immaculate Conception of Mary.
Or Richard Dawkins, pithily dismissing Mary as "a submissive cosmic doormat" and Immaculate Conception as "a disgusting theological idea".
If those voters continue to be ambivalent toward Romney, he might be forced to revisit the idea of igniting his immaculate mane.
It's exhausting to pretend I'm some Pinterest-worthy, immaculate parent, when the reality is I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing -- and usually, I look downright atrocious trying to do it.
From his Palladian villa set in an immaculate garden Voltaire in the 18th century set forth the ideas that would help spark the French Revolution.
Finally, they exiled him, with the older, idea-free crowd, to a featureless room overlooking the vast, immaculate cafeteria.
