Excerpts from Church Documents

Pius IX's Ineffabilis Deus (Defining the Immaculate Conception)

Pius XII's Munificentissimus Deus (Defining the Assumption)

Leo XIII's Iucunda semper expectatione (On the Rosary)

Mary, Help of Christians, in Leo XIII's Adiutricem (On the Rosary)

Mary, our Mother, in Pius X's Ad diem illum laetissimum (On the Immaculate Conception)

Pius XII's Ad caeli Reginam (On Proclaiming the Queenship of Mary)

Mary and the Church, in Vatican II's Constitution on the Church Lumen gentium