By Michael Pakaluk,The Catholic Thing - The Four Gospels in the canonical arrangement begin with Matthew. And Matthew’s Gospel begins with sex... It’s not a “genealogy.” All those fumbling sermons notwithstanding by pastors trying to find something to say about, “A was the father of B, and B was the father of C, and C was the father of D” and so on and so forth. Those strange Semitic names are hard to pronounce, but “show the fallen race we come from and our need to be redeemed.”