Friday, August 12, 2011

August 15th - Feast of the Assumption of Mary

DEFINING THE DOGMA OF THE ASSUMPTION

Munificentissimus Deus
Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius XII issued November 1, 1950
On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, exercising papal infallibility, declared in "Munificentissimus Deus" that it is a dogma of the Church "that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." As a dogma, the Assumption is a required belief of all Catholics; anyone who publicly dissents from the dogma, Pope Pius declared, "has fallen away completely from the divine and Catholic Faith."

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