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To: mockingbyrd
The Church does not have an official teaching regarding exactly how Christ entered the world.

Actually, it does. Fr. Geiger cites the Catechism of the Council of Trent in both his review and in his vlog. The specific reference is in Part I, Article II, under "Second Part of This Article: "Born of the Virgin Mary." Here's what it says:

But as the Conception [of Jesus] itself transcends the order of nature, so also the birth of our Lord presents to our contemplation nothing but what is divine.

Besides, what is admirable beyond the power of thoughts or words to express, He is born of His Mother without any diminution of her maternal virginity, just as He afterword's went forth from the sepulchre while it was closed and sealed, and entered the room in which His disciples were assembled, the doors being shut; or, not to depart from every-day examples, just as the rays of the sun can penetrate without breaking our injuring in the least the solid substance of glass, so after a like but more exalted manner did Jesus Christ come forth from His Mother's womb without injury to her maternal virginity. The immaculate and perpetual virginity forms, therefore, the just theme of our eulogy. Such was the work of the Holy Ghost, who at the Conception and birth of the Son so favored the Virgin Mother as to impart to her fecundity while preserving inviolate her perpetual virginity.

35 posted on 12/04/2006 9:09:32 PM PST by Pyro7480 ("Give me an army saying the Rosary and I will conquer the world." - Pope Blessed Pius IX)
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To: Pyro7480
Okay, call me dense, but I don't see anything there that says exactly how Jesus was born. I do see that Our Lady remained completely virgin, but I already knew that. I'm saying it's God we're talking about. Our Lady could have given birth the traditional way and remained completely a virgin.

That which can function as a receptacle also functions as a conduit. Acting as a receptacle ends virginity, acting as a conduit does not.
36 posted on 12/04/2006 9:17:52 PM PST by mockingbyrd (Good heavens! What women these Christians have-----Libanus)
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