Why Does the Church Teach that Mary was Assumed, Body.& Soul?
The 4th Glorious Mystery: The Assumption
8/8, Father Dominic founded a 13th century order,
which combated the Albigensian heresy.
Albigensians/Cathars were the latest incarnation
t/7hi a dualistic heresy
(Much earlier, Augustine of Hippo was taken
with the Manichean/dualist heresy.).
As per this heresy, God is NOT all powerful &
is perpetually at war
with an equally powerful bad god.
In their convoluted thinking, the body is bad.
They fail to recognize the significance of
the "resurrection of the body";
that God wants our bodies and souls in Heaven!.
Remembering the Transfiguration & slaughter
[at Hiroshima and Nagasaki].....
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time
They all ate and were satisfied,
and they picked up the fragments left over—
twelve wicker baskets full.
Those who ate were about five thousand men, not counting women and children.
- How are we to believe that Philadelphia & Trenton Catholic bishops believe the truth about marriage/family/human sexuality when NFP Awareness Week & today's anniversary of Humanae Vitae were so effectively ignored? (7/25/26)
- "In neither the Philly Archdiocese nor the Trenton Diocese (walking distance to my home) have I seen/heard any mention of this - other than my own voice! This is shameful and inexcusable." (7/20/26)
- Abortion count rises as women turn to chemical abortions, per new data (EWTN, 7/24/26)
- U.S. bishops tighten funeral policies after growth of ‘irregular practices’ (Catholic World Report, 7/24/26)
- Nigeria, Nicaragua, Syria, India Cited in Index of Rising Christian Persecution (National Catholic Register, 7/16/26)
- Another scandal our bishops have failed to address (Catholic Culture, 7/16/26)
- The Murder and Memory of Ann Widdicombe (Gavin Ashenden. 7/10/26)
- Sisters in Crisis Revisited: From Unraveling to Reform and Renewal (Ann Carey, 6/15/2013)
- Ann Carey - ahead of her time (Amazon customer review, 10/17/2009)
- Marriage and annulment, then versus now
"Today in America, Catholics helping other Catholics find a way out of their Catholic marriages is a very big machine, and it hums along a certain way and in a certain direction. I myself used to support that system on the layman’s end of things, steering family and friends toward annulment and with no concern that they wouldn’t get one (they always did). I’ve repented of that; I’ve confessed it. The temporal effects remain, however—in the parishes, in the community, in the extended family, with the spouses who didn’t want any of this, and with the children" (Leila Miller, June 2026)
As far as this blogger knows, there are no limitations on the faculties of James Martin, SJ, in Pa or Jersey. As Bishops Barres did with Edward Beck, CP, in Long Island, how wonderful it would be for Archbishop Perez & Bishop O'Connell (and certainly Cardinal Tobin and the other ordinaries) to remove those faculties!
Lydia Dorr
