"There has been neither a retraction so far, nor any equivalent statements since.In his encyclical on the Immaculate Conception, "Ad diem illum", Pope Pius X said, "...since Mary carries it over all in holiness and union with Jesus Christ, and has been associated by Jesus Christ in the work of redemption, she merits for us "de congruo", in the language of theologians, what Jesus Christ merits for us "de condigno"."