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Your wife was right to ask questions. It's reprehensible if officials at her Church wouldn't/couldn't answer her. But, as other posters have noted, perpetual virginity is not new, nor is it fringe. In fact, the CINOs all know exactly what it is and still reject it.

I sympathize with your wife as I have been to quite a few CINO churches in my time (break out the guitar...ugh). Still, we all must "Strive to enter through the narrow gate...". I wish that narrow gate was the Catholic Church for your wife. I also agree on the not bickering. Why do we do that? LOL.

Why do we do it? The answer is obvious. And I offer it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y

“I also agree on the not bickering. Why do we do that? LOL.”

IMHO, it would not be an issue, but for the fact that -— wrongly and against RCC doctrine, I know -— in many RC sub-groups (Hisanic, in my experience) Mary has replaced Christ as pseudo goddess.

Yes, I know that is not RC official doctrine.

But as a practical matter, if you ask the average Southwest USA Roman Catholic who they worship, they’ll tell you “Maria.”

There is a fine line between exhaltation and worship, and it’s being crossed.

That heresy has brought attention to issues like this, which would otherwise be a mere intellectual disagreement, akin to whether one should call Mary “Mother of God” or “Mother of Christ.”