The Feast of the Assumption is celebrated on Aug. 15 each year by the Catholic Church. The occasion celebrates the belief that Mary's body and soul entered heaven from Earth after her death.

For weeks, the leadership of the Assumption Church in downtown St. Paul has led efforts to block a new affordable housing complex from taking root in Mary Hall, which is owned by Catholic Charities.

From its prominent location in downtown St. Paul, the Church of the Assumption’s Romanesque columns ... The charity hopes to sell its Mary Hall building, vacant for several years, to the ...

The Catholic Church teaches that when Mary ended her earthly life, God assumed her, body and soul, into heaven. The dogma of the Assumption of Mary — also called the “Dormition of Mary” in ...

This week, the vast machinery of the Roman Catholic Church seemed almost ready to ... Clement XIII begging him to define the bodily Assumption of Mary as “a most certain dogma of faith.” ...

In Catholic dogma, the Assumption is somewhat more narrow, being focused primarily on what happened after her death. In a reproduction of a Russian icon from the Marian Library’s Eastern Church art ...

The Catholic Church teaches that when Mary’s earthly life ended, God assumed her, body and soul, into heaven. The dogma of the Assumption of Mary — also called the “Dormition of Mary” in ...