The Assumption of Mary - August 15The Feast of Mary's Assumptionby: Marcellino D'Ambrosio To listen to the PodCast of The Assumption of Mary - Click here! This discussion of the Catholic Doctrine of Mary's Assumption, defined by Pope Pius XII as a dogma of faith, originally appeared as an article on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary in Our Sunday Visitor. I once asked a college theology class if anyone could explain the doctrine of the Assumption of Mary. A student replied, “yeah, that’s the teaching whereby the Catholic Church ‘assumes’ that Mary is in heaven.” There’s a bit more to the dogma...