The Assumption: How Doctrine Develops

In the last two centuries, there are three examples of the Church Developing her doctrine: the definition of the Immaculate Conception in 1854, the First Vatican Council’s clarification of Papal infallibility in 1870, and Pius XII’s definition of the Assumption in 1950. Michael Pakaluk joins us with a closer look at the Assumption and what the feast tells us about how doctrine develops. Further…