Marian dogmas

the bodily taking up of the Virgin Mary into Heaven at the end of her earthly life, dogma of the Catholic Church

teaching that Mary was conceived free from original sin

thumb|An icon of the Our Lady of Kazan|Theotokos of Kazan. Theotokos () is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus, used especially in Eastern Christianity. The usual Latin translations are or (approximately "parent [] of God"). Common English translations are "Mother of God" or "God-bearer" – but these both have different literal equivalents in , and respectively.

doctrine that Mary the mother of Jesus had never had sexual relations throughout her life; held by many Christian groups, including the Catholic Church

Impeccability is an inability to sin, while sinlessness refers to an absence of actual sin. The Abrahamic religions teach impeccability to be an attribute of God. Logically God cannot sin: it would mean that God would act against God's own will and nature. Impeccability is therefore also attributed to Jesus Christ in Christianity. The Letter to the Hebrews asserts that Christ "did not sin". Islam further teaches a concept of , the sinlessness or impeccability of prophets, which has been compared to Papal infallibility in early Catholic doctrine.