This has been a bad year for churches designed by architects Brust & Brust. Next to fall is Brust & Brust's St. Aloysius, ...

Saint Joseph, the husband of Mary and “adoptive father” of the Lord Jesus Christ, is well known to have been a carpenter who supported the holy family through his daily labours. Roman Catholic ...

Archaeologists have uncovered 6th century Coptic murals depicting Joseph and Jesus along with several artifacts in a two-level building in Egypt. Credit: Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.

The story of Jesus's birth is oft told, but Mary and Joseph's unconventional courtship can also be found in the history of Judea. HISTORY MAGAZINE Here’s what biblical scholars say.

Joseph's example reminds us that faithful commitment to our daily responsibilities can have lasting and far-reaching effects. Georges de La Tour's Joseph the Carpenter is a quietly powerful reflection ...

He pointed to Thomas in the distance, and Abbanes agreed to purchase him for three pounds of silver. Thus, the Savior wrote a bill of sale, which read as follows: “I, Jesus, son of Joseph the ...

He envisioned a young Jesus surrounded by his parents, Joseph and Mary, in their working-class carpenter’s shop. It would be a new kind of scene: serene, overindulged with religious symbolism ...

The event was hosted in LiGreci’s Staaten, where hundreds marked the traditional feast day of St. Joseph the carpenter and the foster father of Jesus, as well as their Italian ancestry.

He seems to have brought Jesus up in the same trade he was in, because in Mark 6:3 we read that Jesus himself is called a “carpenter”. Joseph seems to have been around at the start of Jesus’s ministry ...

A painting of St. Joseph and Jesus is seen as Pope Francis arrives for an audience at the Vatican with members of Italy's National Confederation of Craft Trades and Small- and Medium-Sized ...

St Joseph, the husband of Mary, mother of Jesus, exerts a powerful and enduring influence on the Christian imagination. His feast day is celebrated this Wednesday, March 19.

To put St. Joseph into context: He is the father of Jesus Christ. The date of March 19, by the way, is Father’s Day in Italy. He was the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and serves as the ...