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The fact is that Mark does mention that Jesus had half siblings. Or would Catholics like to just re-write scriptures so that they conform with Catholic TRADITION!

Oh she was a virgin when Christ was born, but heaven forbid that she would ever have real sex with her husband and have another six or seven or eight or so. That reality would just absolutely muddy the tidy image that many have of Mary...one of eternal chastity and bountiful omnipotent grace!

Remember what she said in her greeting to Elizabeth...the part where she ackowledges that what was in her womb was"the Lord of her SALVATION!"

Oh she was a virgin when Christ was born, but heaven forbid that she would ever have real sex with her husband and have another six or seven or eight or so. That reality would just absolutely muddy the tidy image that many have of Mary...one of eternal chastity and bountiful omnipotent grace!

Your jejeune attempt at sarcasm has failed, dear brother.

"You had good reason to be horrified at the thought that another birth might issue from the same virginal womb from which Christ was born according to the flesh. For the Lord Jesus would never have chosen to be born of a virgin if he had ever judged that she would be so incontinent as to contaminate with the seed of human intercourse the birthplace of the Lord’s body, that court of the eternal king."
-- Pope Siricius I, "Letter to Bishop Anysius", A.D. 392

Yes, it is natural and proper for husband and wife to have sexual relations, but there are appropriate and inapproprate places for that intercourse. just because a given bodily function is natural doesn't mean it's always and everywhere okay to perform it. Urination is natural and proper, for example, but there are appropriate and inappropriate places to urinate. Even though a crucifix is only a piece of wood or metal, it's still a symbol of and reminder of our Lord; no Christian would ever piss on a crucifix!

Mary's body and soul were immaculate, made so by the Christ she carried within her. What sort of holy man would St. Joseph have been if he'd wanted to impregnate a womb that had one held God Himself? It would be worse than pissing on a crucifix; it would be an act of carnal desire performed upon the Ark of the Covenant itself.