In the early 13th century, the church faithful were abstaining from receiving holy Communion. It wasn't that they were not ...

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.

About 150,000 people shared a meal in a 102-year-old custom that a southern Indian parish observes on the feast of Saint Joseph ... pray and participate in the sharing of food on the feast day." ...

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.

Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA “When I was expecting my first child and experiencing difficulty, I asked St. Joseph for his intercession — my daughter was born on his feast day,” Pribaz told ...

JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) — Christians celebrated a saint with some special significance locally on Wednesday. Lent coincides with the feast day of St. Joseph on March 19.

St. Joseph Cathedral, 401 Main St., will celebrate the Feast of St. Joseph on March 19 with a noon Mass, traditional St. Joseph's Altar, and community meal. The altar will be open for prayer and ...

And that leads us into the foods for such a feast day. Here are nine essentials for a proper St. Joseph’s Day celebration: Artichokes are a thing of spring in various corners of the world.

St. Joseph altars had been a way to celebrate the feast day for three decades when, in 1914, the Times-Democrat wrote about the altar at St. Joseph Church in Gretna. It reported that the Rev ...

Pope Gelasius, I ended Rome's Lupercalia Day in the 5th Century. Meanwhile, Christians began to hold a feast on Feb. 14 to celebrate Saint Valentine and the sanctity of marriage. Saint Valentine's ...

The campaign, which begins Feb. 8, the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita ... A member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Archdiocese of Mombasa, Katunge said a total of 22,500 people from ...