Was St. Anne declared to be immaculately conceived in 1950?

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Hi, I was reading an article by Church of Christ apologist Dr. Douglas Jacoby on Original Sin, and in the article he claims that “In 1950, the Vatican extended the logic to claim that Mary’s mother (Saint Anna, by tradition) was also “immaculately” conceived. This is an official Catholic doctrine.”

I’ve never heard anything like this before, and I’ve been searching for some sort of official Catholic document supporting his claim but I can’t find anything. Where do you suppose he got this idea? Aside from the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, did the Church proclaim anything about St. Anne in 1950 that he may have misunderstood?
 
Dear friend,

You haven’t heard anything like it before because it never happened. Such a statement gives evidence of ignorance of the reason for the Immaculate Conception. The reason that Mary was immaculately conceived had nothing to do about her and everything to do about Jesus. It would have been entirely inappropriate for the Son of God to have been conceived in a body that had been tainted by sin. Mary is not God and there was no reason for her to be immaculately conceived.

Fr. Vincent Serpa, O.P.
 
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