[ealgeone]

Except they were married. But, to Roman Catholic belief this was an invalid marriage as there was, per Roman Catholic dogma but not the New Testament, no inclination to have children of their own.

I tell ya....the more I continue to study Roman Catholicism, the more convoluted it gets.

[Elsie]

Except they were married.

The Roman Catholic Church  has turned the beautiful, blessed lady of Scripture into an asexual, frigid Jewish wife; who withheld her favors from Joseph for no rational reason.

 

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV 

... each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.

For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does.

Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

 

 Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer;

but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.