Another Catholic fairy tale, so the world and the born-again Christians say, concerns the queenship of Mary (Regina Caeli), which is, for Catholics, the logical consequence of her assumption into ...

Unrelated (perhaps), nonmarital childbearing rose from 399,000 in 1970 to 1,464,000 in 2021. The Litany of the Blessed Virgin asks of Mary, “Queen assumed into heaven, pray for us.” Amen to that.

A full-length figure of the Virgin Mary, dressed in robes and standing on clouds and a crescent moon. Her hands are folded on her chest, proper right over proper left. At her feet, are the heads and ...

The Aug. 13 reenactment of the assumption of Mary at the Valencia Cathedral is considered to be an “auto sacramental” (“sacramental act”), a genre of drama linked to Catholic rituals and ...

The well-known Luther scholar Eric Gritsch also thought he believed in Mary’s Assumption, as did the 12 Lutheran scholars in the ecumenical book mentioned above.

Apocryphal writings describing the end of Mary’s life and her assumption date back to the first few centuries of the church. An early such narrative that includes a long description of the Dormition ...

The Franciscan Custody will dedicate the celebrations for the solemnity of the Assumption of Mary “to prayer for peace in the Holy Land and throughout the world.” “All those who can, on the ...