[Elsie]

Q. I know that the Church believes in Mary’s perpetual virginity, but what are we to make of the passages in the Gospel that refer to Jesus’ brothers and sisters?

"WE" are to believe exactly what Rome TELLS us to believe: that these references are to COUSINS.

(I know there is a perfectly good word for cousin in the Greek; but now; after all these centuries; the shear weight of tradition, history and practice makes it true; right?)

Mary was a PERPETUAL VIRGIN and never consummated her marriage with Joseph.

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “ but now; after all these centuries; the shear weight of tradition, history and practice makes it true; right?” <<

Unfortunately, that covers the preponderance of so-called “christian” doctrine:

Jer 16:19
O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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