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Deacon Frank: The Truth Concerning Mary’s Perpetual Virginity – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Deacon Frank: The Truth Concerning Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

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By Deacon Frank, Catholic Exchange, February 17, 2025

“Deacon Frank” is a permanent deacon in the United States. He is involved in the Eucharistic Revival.

Author’s Note: I would like to recommend an excellent book authored by Brant Pitre, entitled Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary. It was an invaluable source of information for this article. Indeed, his reasoning and logic in defense of this dogmatic teaching was used extensively by me in writing this article. In my opinion, Brant Pitre is one of the finest and most influential Catholic apologist writers of our time.

Most Christians, including many Catholics, do not believe in the Dogma of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary. Many point to the instances in the gospels referring to Jesus’ brothers and sisters, believing this to be directly contradictory to the dogmatic teaching.

Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us? (Mk. 6:3)

On its surface this passage from Mark’s Gospel certainly seems to refute the teaching. But from its earliest days, the Church has held that Mary was a perpetual virgin. Mary’s perpetual virginity was declared a dogma of our Catholic Faith at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 AD.

To substantiate that the Dogma of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary is indeed true requires analysis of several passages from both the New and Old Testaments as well as quotations from early Church Fathers. …

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