When Mary gave birth to Jesus, she was a married woman.
In modern times, when a `shotgun wedding’ takes place, is the woman an `unwed mother’ when her child is later born within wedlock?
Likewise, Mary and Joseph did not conceive out of wedlock together. Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit.
This `Mary the Unwed Mother’ business is yet another attempt by the modern world to deny the Blessed Virgin her rightful place as the Mother of Our Lord.
See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2072570/posts?page=116#116
Actually, I’d think those wanting to uphold the Virgin would apply the same logic that they do when they say that Joseph did not have sex with Mary after the birth of Jesus.
Would you be bothered by God having taken a married woman? Sexual relations was part of what being married meant. In the same way, the Catholic Church will consider annulling marriages that are not consummated.
Mind you, I am no scholar on the Catholic Church. You might want to ask someone like NYer or Salvation or Wagglebee