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The perpetual virginity of Mary \u201cmatters\u201d because it was fitting and proper, and preserved the miracle of the virgin birth and the uniqueness of the incarnate God. If she had had other children, then that miracle would be doubted.\u00a0And would anyone really want a brother Who was God? Talk about sibling conflicts and an inferiority complex!<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not required by the Church to intuitively \u201cfeel\u201d this doctrine, but we have to accept it as a de fide<\/em> dogma of the Catholic Church (that is, a doctrine possessing the very highest authority and certainty of truthfulness). If it weren\u2019t important or necessary, it wouldn\u2019t have been declared to be so.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have to \u201cresonate\u201d with every doctrine or\u00a0fully understand a doctrine in order to accept it in faith, by the authority of the Holy Catholic Church.\u00a0If God (through the Church) had decided that perpetual virginity wasn\u2019t necessary, then I would accept that as God\u2019s will and defend that<\/em>.<\/p>\n

God could have become man (or not<\/em> become man) and saved humanity any way He wanted to. It was not intrinsically necessary for there to be a virgin birth, or even for Jesus to die on the cross. God could have chosen to save us in another fashion. He\u2019s God. He can do as He pleases. But as it is, He decided that Mary\u2019s perpetual virginity was fitting and proper, and to come and suffer and die on the cross on our behalf, out of His amazing love and mercy, and we believe those are the facts of the matter, based on biblical data and universal early Christian tradition.<\/p>\n

Even the founders of Protestantism firmly believed in Mary\u2019s perpetual virginity. It only started being ditched after the so-called \u201cEnlightenment\u201d (late 18th century) and the destructive, skeptical, hyper-traditional theological liberalism that we were blessed with at the same time. That history alone should be compelling for any Catholic (and, I would say, Protestant, too), whether or not they \u201cfeel\u201d the doctrine.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s often stated tat this doctrine presupposes that sex is evil or that even married sex is evil or if not evil, somehow unholy or something to be ashamed of: as if the Church teaches that it is a bad thing. The Church is not \u201canti-sex\u201d<\/a> because it extolls consecrated virginity.\u00a0Marriage is a sacrament (meaning that it gives grace to the married couple).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s true that we think the evangelical counsels, or voluntary service of the priest or nun is a higher calling, because it is an undistracted devotion to the Lord: as St. Paul says. It\u2019s heroic renunciation for the kingdom\u2019s sake. But we don\u2019t regard marriage or married, moral sex as \u201cbad\u201d because of that.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a case of \u201cvery good\u201d or \u201cexcellent\u201d (marriage) and \u201cbest\u201d (consecrated virginity). Protestant polemics in the 16th century created the false dichotomy and attributed it to Catholic teaching because they had ceased teaching that a consecrated celibate state was biblical and helpful to the Church.<\/p>\n

But it is<\/em> <\/strong>quite explicitly biblical indeed. St. Paul devotes an entire chapter to it (1 Corinthians 7). So it\u2019s another case where Catholics are much more biblical than Protestants: who always regard themselves as \u201cthe Bible people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Photo credit:<\/strong> Lower portion of\u00a0The Annunciation\u00a0<\/em>(c. 1436), by Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441)<\/span> [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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