Please consider that the Church teaches that Christ is our Savior, and that His mother remained ever a virgin. Which do we accept? Which do we reject? Both Joseph and Mary were told that this child was conceived by the Holy Spirit. What man would even think of touching that womb? Not thinkable. Desire for any other child would be an offense against God, no?
I don’t think so, no.
God also created man and woman. He created the institution of marriage. Man and woman are created in such way that they can be argued to complete each other in many ways, including sexually. By this I do not mean ONLY the external physical act per se, but also note that hormonally and chemically changes occur in males and females during sex that cause them to bond.
It is also taught that God did this so that man would have a partner; that it brings completeness to both.
Therefore, I see no sin in either Joseph or Mary desiring what God created as a blessing for all humankind.
One might argue that at one time the Genesis account of Creation was taken literally. We now know beyond all doubt that a literal interpretation is not true, although an allegorical interpretation is a very good one, and would serve as an excellent explanation of Creation to a people who had no scientific understanding of the universe. And yet the ancient Holy Leaders of our Belief, ordained by God, WROTE and believed exactly what we see in the Bible today. In other words, what God would have told them was true within THEIR LIMITS of understanding.
One might EQUALLY ARGUE that the same is true here - that there are spiritual qualities of Mary that we do not yet fully understand, and that a tradition of ongoing physical virginity may help us to understand the concept that is at work, WITHOUT ACTUALLY being the actual physical truth.
I believe in our God as taught; I also believe, however, in a God of ultimate will. He is a God that clearly shows that he believes in laws - both physical and moral. Yet our focus has seldom been on this. Why do we as Catholics believe that God chooses not to break moral laws, but routinely chooses to break physical laws (in how He performs miracles?) Personally, I DON’T believe that. I believe that all the acts that He performs as miracles somehow occur WITHIN the physical laws that He has created, but that we simply don’t yet understand all those laws. Understanding how He heals the sick or is omnitemporal is more difficult for me, than it would be for a man of Moses’ time to understand the lighting of a match - an act that surely would have been seen as a miracle.
To therefore argue that our understanding of what was told to us earlier is THE ONLY such understanding is short-sighted. I am always open to learning more about my God, as HE COMMANDED, and yes, I am therefore always willing to question what I believe I already know - and NO that isn’t insulting to anyone, fellow Catholic or Mary in particular. In fact, it honors what they went through in order to bring to me my belief today.
What is different from the sort of argument being presented about Mary, from, for example, the sort of argument that was presented about the requirement for circumcision?
I do my best!