The Virgin Birth

While it makes no difference to Peter Lefcourt’s thoroughly just complaint against ignoring the screenwriter’s creative role (Saturday Letters, Jan. 2), hasn’t he, like many others, confused the Immaculate Conception with the Virgin Birth--the former being the Roman Catholic dogma proclaimed by Pius IX in 1854 to the effect that the conception of the Virgin Mary was achieved without any taint of original sin?

JOHN ESPEY

Pacific Palisades