[MHGinTN]

And children from a previous marriage of Joseph is not the only plausible explanation ... so what’s the point in it? ... To a Catholiciism adherent it is vital to maintain the fictions of Mary’s mediatrixship, etc. The issue is vital to Mariology, but not to salvation, so I go with what Paul clearly wrote and was first hand witness to.

[Claud]

to a Catholiciism adherent it is vital to maintain the fictions of Mary’s mediatrixship, etc.

Luther held it. Calvin held it. What was their excuse?

And please see the branch you are standing on as well. You need to preserve the fiction of a Church that was doctrinally corrupted and whose well-considered opinions can be ignored at will.