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The More Complicated Story of St. Joseph
The church is not taking a historical stance on this. It's certainly for in modern magisterial documents has favored the virginal hypothesis, which is sustainable biblically. And as you know, as things get more complicated, they're less likely to be justified. But there is no contradiction. So it's a more complicated way to marry the historical sources to the post-reformation images of Joseph. That would basically be that Joseph was indeed marrying a widow before he married Mary and the children were of a previous widow. This would just be the way in which you could reconcile all the sources. We have to still come to the same conclusion about a virginal Joseph.