[boatbums]

Well, it certainly is easy to see from where some Catholics get their screwy (pun) ideas about sex. No wonder the very idea that Mary and Joseph had normal marital relations after the birth of Jesus is so repugnant to them. Guys like Jerome, Augustine and Cyprian were instrumental in the development of the doctrine of Mary's ever-virgin status. Now we see how they got to there.

[BenKenobi]

“Well, it certainly is easy to see from where some Catholics get their screwy (pun) ideas about sex. No wonder the very idea that Mary and Joseph had normal marital relations after the birth of Jesus is so repugnant to them. Guys like Jerome, Augustine and Cyprian were instrumental in the development of the doctrine of Mary’s ever-virgin status. Now we see how they got to there.”

Except for the fact that this is not what the Church teaches. The church explicitly teaches just the opposite. Augustine and Cyprian are wrong about the value of the body. The body is not in and of itself sinful.

[daniel1212]

Guys like Jerome, Augustine and Cyprian were instrumental in the development of the doctrine of Mary’s ever-virgin status

I find it rather contradictory in principal that Rome considers entering marriage with the intention of never having children to be a “grave wrong and more than likely grounds for an annulment.”[25], while praying to a women who went thru with a marriage apparently intending to do just that, according to Rome. And which is contrary to the “leave and cleave” description of marriage in Gn. 2:24 and personally confirmed by the Lord Jesus. (Mt. 19:5)

And He specified opposite genders as being what God joined, not as homosexual revisionists would have it.