Month: November 2025

My best friend in school and college, Maria Gillis, reminded me recently that when we were in sixth year in Mount St Anne’s, during one religion class I asked our teacher if Jesus was a virgin. Maria remembers ‘everyone in the class holding their collective breath, waiting for lightning to strike’, and our lovely teacher, John Garvey, calmly replying that there was no mention in the Bible of Jesus ‘having a relationship’. I have zero memory of that and cannot …