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To: Kolokotronis

For Roman Catholics, it’s the opposite: the Assumption is a dogma, but whether she died is not defined.


45 posted on 08/01/2015 1:30:28 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("All the time live the truth with love in your heart." ~Fr. Ho Lung)
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To: Tax-chick; NRx

Relatively recent innovation, isn’t it? Pius XII? I think before that you folks believed as we did. That said, the belief in the assumption is all but universal among the Orthodox. We’re just not quick to dogmatise much.


48 posted on 08/01/2015 3:36:08 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated)
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