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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