‘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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The opinions, facts and any media content in ... He later wrote that “the mother of Jesus had been turned out by the carpenter Joseph who was betrothed to her as she had been convicted of ...

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.

The opinions, facts and any media content in them are ... So if Jose is not Joseph, where is Joseph, father of Jesus? The pagan writer Celsus and the Rabbinic Talmud both suggest that Jesus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

since Joseph was the legal father who raised Jesus. As someone who studies Catholic beliefs about Mary, I have argued that interpreting their “betrothal” as a modern-day “engagement” is ...

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 ...

In processing Jesus’ words to God the Father, I realized that my feelings were likely more similar to Jesus’ relationship with Joseph than God. After all, Joseph raised Jesus to be a carpenter ...