text: By tradition, Salome is a kinswoman of Jesus and the mother of James and John.  She was the wife of Zebedee.  She is one of the sisters mentioned in scripture (not by Dan Brown).  It is only the vainglorious effort to argue that Mary is ever virgin by deifying her uterus to go with the anti-sexual attitudes of the classic period that the myth of Salome as cousin rather than sister came about.  The Protestants ignore such claptrap, which is misogynistic at its core.  To deny the misogyny in Catholic sexual teaching, Marian teaching and regarding women priests is vincible ignorance to preserve the party line.