The Assumption is not the Virgin's retirement nor her withdrawal from history: it is the very foundation of her maternal queenship. We confess a woman taken up to the glory of God and proclaimed Queen of Heaven; Civitavecchia reminds us what this Queen does with her glory: she bends over a poor plaster face and weeps blood for her children. This is not a new paradox. Pius XII, the pope who in 1950 defined the dogma of the Assumption, asked, face…
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The Assumption is not the Virgin's retirement nor her withdrawal from history: it is the very foundation of her maternal queenship. We confess a woman taken up to the glory of God and proclaimed Queen of Heaven; Civitavecchia reminds us what this Queen does with her glory: she bends over a poor plaster face and weeps blood for her children. This is not a new paradox. Pius XII, the pope who in 1950 defined the dogma of the Assumption, asked, face…