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Why do we believe in the Assumption?

Mary is shown being taken up to heaven in a painting inside the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore (CNS file photo/Nancy Wiechec)

Friday, 13 August 2010

Because the Church, an authority we can trust wholeheartedly, tells us we ought to