[OLD REGGIE]

You want to cite "Apocrypha" and "manuscript evidence" when it favors your interpretation of Jewish scripture. Are you willing in turn to use Christian apocrypha and manuscript evidence in the same way? Can I cite, say, the "Gospel of Mary", the Pseudoclementines, and the "Epistle of Barnabas" as authoritative sources?

Not only did they discard the Gospel Of Mary (The Apostle to the Apostles), for many years they taught that she was a prostitute. (One of the few changes in Catholic teaching over the years. :-)

[Invincibly Ignorant]

Not only did they discard the Gospel Of Mary (The Apostle to the Apostles), for many years they taught that she was a prostitute. (One of the few changes in Catholic teaching over the years. :-)

Protestants as well. I'd always been under the impression back in the day that Mary Magdalene was a hooker.

[SoothingDave]

for many years they taught that she was a prostitute. (One of the few changes in Catholic teaching over the years.

Once again, Reggie shows himself incapable of understanding what is and what is not "Catholic teaching." There is no official Catholic teaching on Mary Magdalene. Not everything need be dogmatic. Neither is every pious tradition which may stem from legend evidence of evil intent.

Before you get to it, there were no "three wise men" and they didn't come to visit Jesus in the manger.

SD