The Tomb of Mary

[Tis_Bearself]

Yes, that’s fine. I have no problem with people believing Mary died.
But Catholics are not required to believe in approved private revelations.

You are trying to make a lot of things into “official Roman Catholic Church Teaching” when like I said, the Roman Catholic Church has not definitively pronounced on the issue.

It won’t work.

As I said - Roman Catholics are free to believe that she died, or that she did not die, as long as they believe that in either case she was assumed body and soul into Heaven.

Are you actually a Jesuit, btw?

 

[tafan2]

The Eastern traditions often claim that the Catholics get too tied up in trying to define the details, that we are not willing to say “we just don’t know”. I guess it works both ways at times.

 

[FiveLinden]

If, as the Church teaches, Mary remained in a physically ‘virgin’ state before, during and after childbirth surely it would be inconsistent for her body to undergo the far greater damage of death.

 

[po18guy]

That is a very good question. I am dying to find out.

 

[AmbroseSJ]

If, as the Church teaches, Mary remained in a physically ‘virgin’ state before, during and after childbirth surely it would be inconsistent for her body to undergo the far greater damage of death.

Lazarus was raised from the Dead after 4 days in the tomb. Yet he died. Same goes for the Widow of Naim’s son, and the daughter of Jairus. A miracle does not change our human nature and its natural course.