Here is further background on the day, including why it is important to the Catholic Church and traditional methods to celebrate the day. What does the Feast of the Assumption celebrate? How and where ...

The Aug. 13 reenactment of the assumption of Mary at the Valencia Cathedral is considered to be an “auto sacramental” (“sacramental act”), a genre of drama linked to Catholic rituals and traditions ...

After 400 years, the Valencia Cathedral has reintroduced the performance of the “Mystery of the Assumption of the Virgin” drama as part of the basilica’s festivities to celebrate the Aug. 15 Marian ...

These lines will surely sound subversive to someone unfamiliar with Mary’s Magnificat (Latin for “My soul magnifies the Lord”). The tone is quite similar to a manifesto of a revolutionary or messianic ...

In a letter to his brothers and sisters in Christ, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, appealed for peace in the Holy Land and included a prayer to Our Lady on the feast of ...

Today, August 15, Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Assumption - “the spiritual and physical departure of the mother of Jesus Christ from the earth, when both ...

Catholic and Orthodox Christians -- and a few Protestants, too -- will celebrate Tuesday the taking up of Jesus' mother from earth to heaven. The Western church refers to it as the Solemnity of the ...

Today is Assumption Day, a major Christian holiday celebrating the assumption of Virgin Mary’s body and soul to Heaven. It is public holiday in many European countries such as Austria, Belgium, ...

Pope Francis has named St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Lancaster the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus' first minor basilica. The designation is given to churches outside of Rome by the ...