Perhaps before you set out on that rant you should have checked this Sunday's gospel passage and the final sentence I was referring to - Joseph did not have marital relations with Mary until after Jesus was born.

It's there in black and white and the whole of the Catholic Church throughout the world will hear it this Sunday. Are you suggesting that the Holy Family were using some form of contraception?

Yes those apparitions to the lowly. I chuckled to myself the other day when a poster quoted Our Lady of Guadeloupe. It was what must have been a five minute speech in real time, complete with very complicated imagery and wording. Obviously, the "lowly" had a dictaphone handy. 😁

Your argument so far is based on the opinion of some primitive men who were wrong about a lot of other things, and a ghost.