Jeanie Hannaman

By Catholic World Report Staff - The mystery of the annunciation to Mary is not just a mystery of silence. It is above and beyond all that a mystery of grace... We feel compelled to ask ourselves: Why did Christ really want to be born of a virgin? It was certainly possible for him to have been born of a normal marriage. That would not have affected his divine Sonship, which was not dependent on his virgin birth and could equally well have been combined with another kind of birth. There is no question here of a downgrading of marriage or of the marriage relationship; nor is it a question of better safeguarding the divine Sonship. Why then?

By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky, Catholic World Report - Indeed. Jesus is God, or he is the most loathsome liar in all of history... Jesus Christ is true God and true man, born of Mary. His suffering humanity in union with his divinity and glorious Resurrection rescues us from our sins. The Gospel accounts and the blood of the martyrs in the early Church bolster our faith in His Resurrection. With God’s grace, human reason provides additional compelling arguments to support our faith.