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Nun receives death threats for suggesting Mary was not a virgin [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Nun receives death threats for suggesting Mary was not a virgin
Lucía Caram sparks anger in Spain after appearing to contradict
Catholic teaching on perpetual virginity of mother of Jesus
Sam Jones in Madrid
Thursday 2 February 2017 15.33 GMT
A nun in Spain who says she received death threats for suggesting that Mary probably had sex with her husband, Joseph, has apologised for any offence caused but accused her critics of deliberately misunderstanding her point.
Sister Lucía Caram, a well-known Dominican nun with more than 183,000 Twitter followers, appeared to contradict church teaching when she appeared on Spanish TV on Sunday to discuss sex and faith.
I think Mary was in love with Joseph and that they were a normal couple and having sex is a normal thing, she told the Chester in Love show, adding: Its hard to believe and hard to take in. Weve ended up with the rules weve invented without getting to the true message.
Caram, who was born in Argentina but lives in a Catalan convent, said sexuality was a God-given, basic part of every individual and a means of self-expression. However, she said it was something the church had long struggled with.
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Lucía Caram sparks anger in Spain after appearing to contradict
Catholic teaching on perpetual virginity of mother of Jesus
Sam Jones in Madrid
Thursday 2 February 2017 15.33 GMT
A nun in Spain who says she received death threats for suggesting that Mary probably had sex with her husband, Joseph, has apologised for any offence caused but accused her critics of deliberately misunderstanding her point.
Sister Lucía Caram, a well-known Dominican nun with more than 183,000 Twitter followers, appeared to contradict church teaching when she appeared on Spanish TV on Sunday to discuss sex and faith.
I think Mary was in love with Joseph and that they were a normal couple and having sex is a normal thing, she told the Chester in Love show, adding: Its hard to believe and hard to take in. Weve ended up with the rules weve invented without getting to the true message.
Caram, who was born in Argentina but lives in a Catalan convent, said sexuality was a God-given, basic part of every individual and a means of self-expression. However, she said it was something the church had long struggled with.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/02/nun-receives-death-threats-suggesting-mary-virgin
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The Guardian seems to have chosen to describe it as Mary not being a virgin, rather than Mary
braddy
Feb 2017
#6
The subtitle talks about "perpetual virginity", and calls him 'husband', not 'fiance'
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2017
#46
You're muddling the doctrine of the Assumption with the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception.
rug
Feb 2017
#12
I have heard that the church also promotes that Mary's mother was also a virgin
Angry Dragon
Feb 2017
#11
"The fact of uncertainty, the uncertainty of facts and the cultural resonance of doubt"
rug
Feb 2017
#71
I don't believe she remained a virgin. I have no issue with people believing she did.
hrmjustin
Feb 2017
#17
"Are people really debating whether an imaginary woman from 2000 years ago got fucked or not???"
trotsky
Feb 2017
#40
Would you never read or reply to a thread about death threats about myths?
muriel_volestrangler
Feb 2017
#47