Little Crusader

Lily's friend Katie came over to play today. Katie and her sister both go to school at St. Michael the Archangel. Their parents are members of that parish. It's a solid Catholic family.

I'm not sure how it came up, but while they were playing in the basement Lily said, "Jesus had brothers and sisters." Katie was very surprised and asked, "He did?" Since I was there I tried to diffuse the situation. I explained that Katie's family believes that Mary never had any other children, but that we think the Bible says that He did. I didn't go into great detail, but I think I described both sides fairly.

Although I have pretty firm beliefs about this I didn't think it was time to tack 95 theses on our neighbor's door. I'm glad that Lily is thinking about this though? How could she have known that this was such a hot-button issue?