On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII in his encyclical Munificentissimus Deus, proclaimed to the world the following:

“By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul, and by our own authority, we pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: 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.”

What is curious is that in this papal document no where is it mentioned that the Virgin Mary actually died.

By Father Tommy Vlachos

Sooner or later, my dear Friends, young men and women, as well as parents, will face the generative problem of their children. They will face it because this instinct is natural, or better said, it was implanted by God in the organism of every man and it presents itself on its own at a certain age. In older times the stimuli of the environment were fewer; therefore the generative instinct was presented somewhat later. Today, however, with so many stimuli like television, cinema theaters, internet, various printed publications, etc., this instinct is presented a lot earlier. For this reason, parents and children must confront this great problem and have the right stand toward it: a stand that it is not a bad evolution of the youth, but a normal maturing. This is part of healthy development in a child.