[mlizzy]

Read the article of this thread so you may see what you missed.

I did read the article, then I asked some questions [of Catholics in my family]. Then I looked on the Net, and that's what I found. I didn't seek it out any further, because I was confident the scholarly Catholics on Free Republic (they keep answering questions in this forum; it's nothing short of miraculous!) would come up with the answers.

[Syncro]

Read the article of this thread so you may see what you missed.

I did read the article

You posted this earlier on the thread:

I know of no other dogma...regarding the Assumption than the one declared by Pope Pius XII in 1950.

That is what this thread is about.

Title: THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY: Condemned as Heretical by 2 Popes in the 5th and 6th Centuries

So here is the dilemma:

Catholicism has more than one view on the assumption of Mary.

Which popes are wrong, or is it blaspheme to declare a pope's (or two popes) dogma wrong?

It can't be both ways.

I believe in the Assumption

Of course. All Catholics must. Just as before 1950 they could not, as per TWO Catholic popes.

I was wondering when Mary became the center of the Catholic belief system, now I see it was 1950.

Although before that more than one pope declared that salvation could be received from Mary.

Besides the "fire of Mary's heart" converting souls.