‘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, ...

Last Tuesday, March 19, was the Feast of St. Joseph, the adoptive father of Jesus. In Spain the day is celebrated the same as our Father’s Day, “El Dia del Padre.” In Poland it is customary ...

From his birth to his execution by the Romans, here are six facts about the historical ... Historians also back the claim that Joseph, Jesus' father, was a carpenter, meaning Jesus would have ...

To start with, they both give genealogies of Jesus' father, Joseph (it's an interesting question ... both accounts contain contradictions with the known facts of history. Just take Luke as an ...

"We should, indeed, honor St. Joseph, since the Son of God Himself was graciously pleased to honor him by calling him father. The Holy Scriptures speak of him as the father of Jesus. ‘His father ...

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 ...

What I mean by this is when the whole family sat down at the dinner table, the kids sitting around that table didn’t all have the same mom and dad. Joseph looked at Jesus, convinced by faith ...

The day celebrates the life of St. Joseph, "the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, foster father of Jesus Christ, and patron of the universal Catholic Church," Fr. Angelo N. Carusi told Fox News ...

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 ...

From his birth to his execution by the Romans, here are eight facts about the historical ... Historians also back the claim that Joseph, Jesus' father, was a carpenter, meaning Jesus would have ...

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 ...