75 Years After Dogma Declaration, Mary’s Assumption Still Lifts the Church

75 Years After Dogma Declaration, Mary’s Assumption Still Lifts the Church

Pope Pius XII proclaims the dogmatic definition of the Assumption, Nov. 1, 1950. COMMENTARY: With her bodily glorification in heaven, Mary assumes the role of mother not just with regard to Christ, but towards all those who form part of the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ.

75 years of dogma: How the church came to believe in Mary's Assumption - The Dialog

By Father Richard Gribble, OSV News Linked integrally with Scripture and the magisterium, the church’s tradition is God’s revelation. Thus, it acts as a source from which our knowledge and practice of the faith is drawn. The feast of the Assumption, possibly the oldest celebration of the Virgin Mary, is rooted in the tradition of […]