The day celebrates the life of St. Joseph, "the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, foster father ... more images of him throughout the world than any other saint, except, of course, Jesus and ...

‘The Holy Family,’ by the 17th-century Spanish painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo. The United States celebrates Father’s Day on the third Sunday of June. Many countries with a Catholic heritage, ...

The Holy Spirit, the “Spirit of the Father and the Son,” the “giver of life” and grace, hovers over St. Joseph, ready to lead him home. Jesus looks lovingly at St. Joseph, his right hand ...

Among the funhouse images of fake children crying in the street and police officers saving inexplicably huge Bibles from the rain, countless depictions of Jesus ... by artist Joseph Geefs, but ...

I don’t need a biological bond to be the father of the embryos my wife and I adopted. When a friend recently asked about the genetic parents of our children, I said something about their “real ...

This literally means that according to that linkage to King David, Jesus Christ was in the blood line of Joseph. Accordingly, this would mean Joseph was the biological father of Jesus. However ...

In the New Testament, the Gospels tell the story of Jesus ... for Mary and Joseph. Theirs was a kinship-based society, and a person’s identity was established through the father’s line ...

Pope Francis, who died last month, was well known for his devotion to St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus. On today’s feast of St. Joseph the Worker (May 1), here are some of the most ...

They shared the joyous jousting of the father-son tug of love. Joseph may have hewn special wooden toys and told Jesus stories of the patriarchs, of the Exodus and the Exile to Babylon.

since Joseph was the legal father who raised Jesus. Catholics believe Mary and Joseph had what the Catholic Church calls a “Josephite marriage” – that is, one that meets Catholicism’s ...

since Joseph was the legal father who raised Jesus. Catholics believe Mary and Joseph had what the Catholic Church calls a “Josephite marriage” – that is, one that meets Catholicism’s ...