Here is further background on the day, including why it is important to the Catholic Church and traditional methods to celebrate the day. What does the Feast of the Assumption celebrate? How and where ...

The doctrine of the Assumption teaches that at the end of her life, Mary, the mother of Christ, was taken body and soul into heaven. Roman Catholics believe the doctrine of the Assumption, which ...

On Aug. 15, Catholics around the world mark the Assumption of Mary, commemorating the end of her earthly life and assumption into heaven. But while the feast day, a solemnity, is a relatively new one, ...

The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin celebrates the belief that at the end of her earthly life, Mary was "taken up body and soul into ...

Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Assumption into Heaven of Mary. Mary’s death is often described as a ‘going to sleep’. What is the idea behind this? I have always thought it a little ...

(RNS) Security is being beefed up as thousands of pilgrims flock to a Marian shrine in southwest France. Why Lourdes and what is the Assumption? The ’Splainer (as in, “You’ve got some ’splaining to do ...

In “Pietà” the Welsh poet and Anglican priest R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) echoed the deep union of mother and son, which Michelangelo so famously sculpted. The bond between a mother and son is one of ...

Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral, high altar. Sculpted group of the Descent from the Cross (Nicolas Coustou), bas-relief of the Entombment (François Girardon), statues of Louis XIII (Guillaume Coustou) ...

The most recent Marian dogma—the Assumption—was promulgated in 1950. But like all doctrinal developments throughout the history of the Church, it is rooted in apostolic teaching and reflected in ...

“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” (Munificentissimus Deus #44). With these words, ...