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 ...

St. Luke records Mary saying to Jesus, “Your father and I have been looking for you anxiously” (Luke 2:48). Joseph has been considered as a putative father, a foster father, and an adoptive ...

Marking the 150th anniversary of St. Joseph being declared patron of the universal church, Pope Francis proclaimed a yearlong celebration dedicated to the foster father of Jesus. Despite being ...

St. Joseph, the loving spouse of Mary and the foster father of Jesus, is honored with a Feast Day on March 19th, two days after the great feast of the Apostle of Ireland, St. Patrick. It seems not ...

With childlike confidence I present myself before thee, Oh holy Joseph, faithful foster father of Jesus! I beg thy compassionate intercession and support in this, my present necessity.

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 ...

In the Christian tradition, today is the Feastday of St. Joseph the Worker – the foster father of Jesus. St. Joseph has frequently been depicted in art and history as a carpenter, patiently ...

As the foster father of Jesus, St. Joseph is an example of the need for loving fathers and mothers in "an age of notorious orphanhood," Pope Francis said. The "demographic winter" in many Western ...

(photo: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA / EWTN) Hannah Brockhaus/CNA World December 7, 2021 ROME — The holy cloak of St. Joseph, a unique relic of the foster father of Jesus, has traveled from church to ...

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 ...

She journeyed with her spouse, Joseph, the foster father of Jesus, to Bethlehem where He was born in a stable because, as the story goes, there was no room for them in the inn. Though Jesus was ...

The pope on Wednesday made the comments while speaking about the figure of Joseph serving as the “foster father” of Jesus. “Joseph shows us that this type of bond is not secondary ...