Isn't the perpetual virginity of Mary a dogma of the Church?

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I’m on the RCIA team at our parish and a few Sunday’s ago our director argued with me stating that the perpetual virginity of Mary is not dogma, and that it’s not doctrine of the church either. I know that she’s wrong, but would like some definitive written proof.
 
Dear friend,

“The Lateran Synod of the year 649, under Pope Martin I, stressed that threefold character of Mary’s virginity teaching of the ‘ blessed ever-virgin and immaculate Mary’ that: she conceived without seed, of the Holy Ghost, generated without injury (to her virginity), and her virginity continued unimpaired after the birth’ (Denziger 256). This can be found in Dr. Ludwig Ott’s “Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma”(pages 93-94).

So it IS a dogma.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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