<P> In the theology of the Catholic Church, original sin is regarded as the general condition of sinfulness, that is the absence of holiness and perfect charity into which humans are born, distinct from the actual sins that a person commits . This teaching explicitly states that "original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants". In other words, human beings do not bear any "original guilt" from Adam's particular sin, which is his alone . The prevailing view, also held in Eastern Orthodoxy, is that human beings bear no guilt for the sin of Adam . The Catholic Church teaches: "By our first parents' sin, the devil has acquired a certain domination over man, even though man remains free ." </P> <P> The Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary is that Mary was conceived free from original sin: "the most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin". The doctrine sees her as an exception to the general rule that human beings are not immune from the reality of original sin . </P> <P> Soon after the Second Vatican Council, biblical theologian Herbert Haag raised the question: Is original sin in Scripture? According to his exegesis, Genesis 2: 25 indicates that Adam and Eve were created from the beginning naked of the divine grace, an originary grace that, then, they would never have had and even less would have lost due to the subsequent events narrated . On the other hand, while supporting a continuity in the Bible about the absence of preternatural gifts (Latin: dona praeternaturalia) with regard to the ophitic event, Haag never makes any reference to the discontinuity of the loss of access to the tree of life . </P> <P> The Eastern Orthodox version of original sin is the view that sin originates with the Devil, "for the devil sinneth from the beginning (1 John iii. 8)". They acknowledge that the introduction of ancestral sin into the human race affected the subsequent environment for humanity (see also traducianism). However, they never accepted Augustine of Hippo's notions of original sin and hereditary guilt . </P>

Define and explain the catholic doctrine of original sin