Nod to the Curt Jester for this cartoon.
The cartoon reminded me of a letter to the editor in a long-ago issue of This Rock in which a reader proposed that the Assumption of Mary should be understood to mean that "we assume Mary is in heaven."
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Shades of Jack Chick? heh. Anyway I have the perfect new title for his next comic book series. Its called, “The Death Goddess”. Like it?
Why does Peter have oxygen?
Very funny! Thanks.
On November 1, 1950, the Assumption of Mary was the subject of an infallible declaration by Pope Pius XII, thus is binding on all Catholics. Western Catholics and Eastern Catholics disagree on whether Mary died before being assumed into heaven, so the infallible declaration avoids commenting on that point. It merely says, “at the end of her earthly life” or words to that effect. Eastern Catholics, and the Eastern Orthodox, do not deny the assumption, but question the necessity for an infallible declaration. Should the Pope “infallibly declare” that Jesus is the Son of God? Fortunately, the 1950 declaration regarding the Assumption is the only infallible declaration that has been made since the doctrine of papal infallibility was formally defined by Vatican I in 1870, and absent some strong reason, I hope there is not another one for a long time to come.