Tag Archives: Mary

Mary, the virgin queen

8/15/2006 – 12:56 am

In the combox of the preceding post, Charlie asks the following question:
I think the usual Catholic response to this is that the word used for brothers here can mean close relatives. Would you care to comment on that?
Dagnabit! No, not really.
But I guess I should at least try to say a few [...]

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Did Jesus have any siblings?

8/14/2006 – 6:10 pm

A common question which crops up among Christians and non-Christians alike is, was Mary the mother of Jesus perpetually a virgin? Or perhaps to ask it another way, did Jesus have any siblings? I thought I’d collate the relevant verses (in my view, and so far as I’m aware, at least) and let [...]

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Fitting epitaph

4/15/2005 – 10:42 am

Here is something you could write on John Paul II’s tombstone:

Indeed, what you have in a guy like JP2 is a man with one foot firmly in modernity, and another foot firmly in the Middle Ages. He doesn’t believe that Isaiah or Daniel foresaw the future, yet he does believe that the BVM foresaw the [...]

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