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#1) The misrepresentation of "betulah" (virgin) vs "almah" (young woman) vs the Greek "parthenos."

#2) That the birth talked about in Isaiah (from which Matthew likely "borrowed" via mistranslation of Hebrew/Greek) is likely unrelated to Jesus and fulfilled hundreds of years before Jesus ever walked on the Earth.

#3) Even if it were a virgin birth, that hardly makes it a miracle since it is possible without a miracle via scientific understanding (though it is indeed rare).

And so on and so forth.

If God wanted to demonstrate something truly miraculous for Jesus' birth, he could have had him spontaneously appear as a baby or have doves carry him down from Heaven, etc, etc, etc.

Moreover, Jesus had 4 brothers and at least 2 sisters. The CC teaches that Mary remained a virgin her whole life. How ridiculous is this? If in fact she did have a virgin birth of Jesus, what difference does it make if she had other kids after the fact? Moreover, it is pretty interesting that Jesus' brothers didn't follow him around everywhere... I know that if my brother were the Son of God, I'd always be at his side every second of the day.  Yet apparently, they didn't deem it to be of uber importance.

The need to keep Mary as a Virgin has many uses for the CC... one of them being that they don't like to admit they were incorrect about anything (and when they do, it takes them forever to do it) and secondly because it is just another example of sexual repression.

If you want to pray to a "Mary," why not Mary Magdalene? I'm not sure why people are so unwilling to accept the very high possibility that Mary Magdalene could have been Jesus' wife. And no, the Da Vinci Code has nothing to do with it.

A sampling of factual information:

First, it would have been accepted custom at the time that someone like Jesus in his age bracket would be married.

Mary, Jesus' mother, is mentioned 19 times in the Bible. MaryM is mentioned 14 times.  

MaryM is mentioned in 8 passages with other women (including Jesus' mother), and in each instance except for one (which happened to be specifically about Mary Jesus' mother), MaryM is mentioned first (even above Jesus' own mother).

A female "friend" would not be more important than a mother (ESPECIALLY not the version of Mary that Catholics worship). During this time, the most important people were always listed first sequentially. Thus, if we were talking about "Joe, Tom, Fred and the Pope," the listing would start out with the Pope being listed first sequentially. 

MaryM is mentioned at the foot of cross, the last one to leave the tomb, in charge of preparing the body, the first to see the resurrected Christ and the first one to tell of it. Where was Jesus' own mother in all of this? Obviously, MaryM played a much bigger role than she is given credit for. Sounds sort of like something that a wife would do huh? 

Finally, when you account for the fact that his mother would have been in Jesus' life more than twice that of MaryM, then MaryM is mentioned far more times by percentage.  If Jesus' Mother was indeed SO important, surely she would have been mentioned FAR more times in the Bible, but alas she was not.

The entire reason why the CC  preaches that Mary was conceived without original sin was because when they came up with their original concept of Jesus' birth, they thought that the male was totally responsible for the birth. When science (shocker) found out that both men and women are responsible, then that would have meant that Jesus was born from a woman with original sin, so they had to "audible" (as they absolutely love to make the rules up as they go along) and say that Mary was born without sin.  

The CC declared this as a required belief back in the 1850's... so people are still believing in something that is over 150 years old. Ironically, that would have been the same 1850's when Darwin published On the Origin of Species. It "only" took them until Pope John Paul II to accept human evolution. They live in a time capsule of anti-reality.

And why pray to people like Mary and the Saints? If God created the entire universe, does anyone really think that he needs "administrative assistants" to handle all of the incoming prayer requests? Surely he can just handle them himself.

The Gospel writers clearly had no idea of Jesus' birth as they conflict on major events from his birth all the way to his death.

Matthew says Jesus was born when Herod was King of Judea. Luke says Jesus was born when Cyrenius was Governor of Syria. Thus, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR JESUS TO HAVE BEEN BORN during the administration of these two rulers because Herod died in the year 4 B.C. and Cyrenius (aka Quirinius in Roman history) did not become Governor of Syria until 10 years later. Herod and Cyrenius are interrupted by the entire reign of Archelaus, Herod's son. Between Matthew & Luke (the only 2 who thought Jesus' birth was important enough to actually write about), there is a clear contradiction of at least ten years, as to the time of Christ's birth. They were absolutely clueless. 

Fast forwarding to his death, 3 of the 4 Gospel writers couldn't agree on Jesus' final words. Let me ask: If you were standing before the Son of God and watched him die, don't you think you'd remember his tiny handful of last words verbatim? I know I would.

So anyway, was Mary a virgin? Who knows? Does it really matter? Not really. Would you think any less of Jesus  if he was born to a "regular" mother or if he was indeed married? What difference does it make? Does it change his teachings or his good works? Nope, not at all.  Perhaps some food for thought.

Peace to you!