
I saw this Catholic meme yesterday that made me want to respond biblically to this blog post. The meme reads something like this: “If Mary had other kids, why didn’t Jesus say, ‘Mom, go stay with James’?” This is one of the most common arguments used to support the idea that Mary had no other children based on what happened at the cross. At first glance, this makes sense. But if you take a closer look, the argument really doesn’t hold up under Scripture. The Bible never says that Mary had no other children. In fact, it says the opposite quite a few times.
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A parish priest in the south of Italy enraged parishioners by dressing the Virgin Mary in a Muslim burqa for his church’s Christmas Nativity scene, adding a boatful of refugees and a rainbow flag in place of the star of Bethlehem.
(AFP) – A town in eastern France has been ordered to remove a statue of the Virgin Mary to comply with a national ban on religious symbols in public, the local mayor said Saturday.
ROME — Jorge Bergoglio, also known as “Pope Francis,” asked for Mary to intercede for the oppressed on Monday and claimed to the thousands gathered to observe what is known as the Roman Catholic “Feast of the Assumption” that she had been “assumed into Heaven body and soul.”
VIDEO: FRESNO, Calif. —