A priest who was helping a Baptist woman to understand the perpetual virginity of Mary became a bit frustrated, finally blurting out: “God Himself was in Mary's womb!” In a moment of illumination or ...

In my recent, previous article on this topic, I wrote about the “Hebraic” use of the Greek adelphos: as applying to cousins, fellow countrymen, and a wide array of uses beyond the meaning of “sibling.

Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably the senior saint within the Christian tradition. Yet we know remarkably little about her. In the New Testament, there is nothing about her birth, ...

The editor of a conservative Catholic magazine said the discovery of a first-century stone box that could have held the bones of Jesus’ brother does not disprove church teaching on the perpetual ...