On November 1, 1950 Pope Pius XII will define that the
Assumption of Mary into heaven in body and soul is a dogma of faith. Such an
action is an infallible declaration that this fact has been revealed by God as
part of the Christian deposit and must be believed by all. No definition of
revealed truth goes beyond this. It does not, above all, create a new belief, a
new thing to be believed. It does not add to the deposit which was handed on to
the Church by the Apostles and which was complete at the death of the last
Apostle. Nor does it alter the deposit, except to make it clear and certain
that this detail had already been given to the Church in the Apostolic age.
(John Manning Fraunces, “Translator’s Foreword,” in Joseph Duhr, The
Glorious Assumption of the Mother of God [trans. John Manning Fraunces;
London: Burns Oates, 1950], vii)
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