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This maid, young girl, virgin was conceived to bring the son of God and Man into this world. That she was taken, assumed, into heaven speaks to the Father's regard for her. That's the point that's missed, rather deliberately, too.

If I'm not mistaken,this is the last of the Marian doctrine to date.Why was it not proclaimed until the 50's?

"If I'm not mistaken,this is the last of the Marian doctrine to date. Why was it not proclaimed until the 50's?"

I don't know. Father said something about that this morning but didn't explain why, only that it's tradition and a very old one. Was there mention of late somewhere on one of these threads that there is mention in Acts or am I confused as usual? I'll look, but I have a 1970 New American at the moment. The Jerusalem is at Mom's.

The belief had always existed in the Church since the death of the last Apostle in ~100 AD. Both the Immaculate Conception and the Assumption are taught implicitly through Old Testament typology and explicitly by the Fathers of the Church. Many confuse defining of a doctrine as inventing of a doctrine and that isn't the case. Just as the Church didn't invent the Trinity when it defined the Trinity in 325 AD and didn't invent the Bible in 405 AD when it closed the canon of the Bible.

Why did it take so long for Munificentissimus Deus to be issued? Hard to say but perhaps one reason is the fact that the exact details of the end of the Blessed Virgin Mary's earthly life are not known. Disputes still exist as to whether or not Mary actually died and then was Assumed or if Mary was Assumed as Elijah and Enoch were, without dying.