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“The Catholic Mary”: Quite Contrary to the Bible? is unavailable, but you can change that!

Theology and beliefs concerning the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of our Lord Jesus, have long been contentious issues between Catholics and Protestants. The latter often maintain that “the Catholic Mary” is a corruption of the true biblical Mary: the humble and lowly handmaiden. Catholic apologist Dave Armstrong, a former evangelical Protestant, shows how the “Catholic” and the “biblical” Mary...

Some Protestants have maintained that they honor Mary more by not believing she was always a virgin. I don’t see how. After all, if there is any motif in the Bible one way or the other, it would be towards celibacy, because virtually all of the apostles (with the exception of St. Peter), including St. Paul, were lifelong celibates, and so was our Lord Jesus, and many of the prophets (e.g., John the Baptist, the
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