Pope
Francis Claims Mary Was ‘Assumed Into Heaven Body and Soul’ on Feast of
Assumption
ROME — Jorge Bergoglio, also known as “Pope
Francis,” asked for Mary to intercede for the oppressed
and claimed to the thousands gathered to observe what is known as the
Roman Catholic “Feast of the Assumption” that she had been “assumed into Heaven
body and soul.”
“To the
Queen of Peace, who we contemplate today in heavenly glory, I wish to entrust
once again the anxieties and sufferings of the people who, in many parts of the
world, are innocent victims of persistent conflict,” he said.
The Feast
of the Assumption marks the Roman Catholic belief that Mary ascended into
Heaven and did not suffer a physical death, although as the outlet
American Catholic notes, “Scripture does not give an account of Mary’s
assumption into heaven.”
The dogma
was made an official Catholic doctrine by Pius XII, who wrote in 1950, “We
pronounce, declare and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma that the
immaculate mother of God, the ever virgin Mary, having completed the course of
her earthly life, was assumed body and soul to heavenly glory.”
Bergoglio
echoed this belief on Monday as he read what is known as the Magnificat and led
those gathered in a recitation of the Angelus Domini.
“She was
the first to believe in the Son of God and is the first to have been assumed
into Heaven body and soul,” he said.
Bergoglio
stated that Mary was the first to have held the Son of God in her arms “and is
the first to have been welcomed by his arms to be introduced into the eternal
kingdom of the Father.”
“Mary, a
humble and simple girl from a remote village in the outskirts of the empire,
because she welcomed and lived the gospel, was permitted by God to stand next
to the throne of the Son for all eternity,” Bergoglio stated.
However,
Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries in Plano, Texas told
Christian News Network that this assertion is unbiblical.
“The
dogma that celebrates the assumption of Mary’s body into Heaven is closely tied
to another Catholic dogma, which is, the immaculate conception of Mary,” he
explained.
“In 1854,
Pope Pius IX declared Mary was conceived free from original sin and she remained
free of every personal sin throughout her entire life (Catechism of the Catholic Church, para 491, 493).”
“After
the pronouncement, some Catholics began asking a question that the church could
not answer. ‘Since Mary never sinned, and sin is what causes death and the body
to decay, where is Mary and what happened to her body?’ Gendron continued.
“Thus the heresy that declared Mary’s sinlessness led to another heresy.
In 1950,
Pope Pius XII declared Mary’s body was miraculously assumed into Heaven.”
Gendron
He said
that Roman Catholics acknowledge that Mary’s ascension is not found in the
Scriptures, but is rather only a tradition based on assumption.
“Their
only basis for believing Mary’s body was miraculously assumed into Heaven is
that their ‘infallible’ Church has declared it,” Gendron stated.
But, “Two
thousand years ago the Pharisees nullified the word of God with their ungodly
traditions and were soundly rebuked and called hypocrites by the Lord Jesus (Mark 7:6-14).
Catholic
bishops have made the same fatal error by rejecting and opposing God’s word,”
he said.
He noted
that the Bible clearly states that all have sinned—including Mary, who
Catholics declare to be immaculate and therefore received into Heaven
bodily.
“In
Romans 3:10-12, 23, we read, ‘None is righteous, no, not one … All have turned
aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one …
all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.’
Mary is
included in the ‘all,’ the ‘none’ and the ‘no one,'” Gendron said.
“Instead
of celebrating the assumption of Mary, Catholics would be wise to study the
Scriptures so they can know the truth, which will set them free from religious
bondage and deception (John 8:31-32).”
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