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 ...

As devotion to the Holy Face finds renewed interest, a new documentary connects ancient relics, modern miracles, and a ...

‘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, ...

This Father’s Day, let us honor Catholic fathers by encouraging them to emulate St. Joseph’s quiet strength.They need not be perfect but faithful, not loud but loving.

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 ...

To underscore the role of fathers in scripture, the Rev. Jim Weiner led a visitor into the foyer at Mercy House, a food pantry, diaper dispensary, and social services mission run by the Archdiocese of ...

Vatican has declared that the appearance of the face of Jesus Christ on a ceremonial bread during a Holy Communion in India ...

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 ...

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 ...