A controversial text has recently surfaced claiming that Jesus had a wife and two children with her as well. The text, which ...

Inspired by a dream, Joseph names the child ... is Jesus' work at the side of Joseph the carpenter. In our own day, the Church has emphasized this by instituting the liturgical memorial of St ...

The new pope’s homage to Leo XIII invokes Rerum novarum, the Catholic Church’s 1891 encyclical engaging with the social ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — A special mass was held at the newly-renovated St. Joseph Catholic Church in downtown St. Joseph Thursday. Bishop Edward M. Lohse, of the Kalamazoo Diocese, blessed the more ...

St. Joseph, the beloved spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and earthly father of Jesus, is celebrated twice ... he guarded from death the Child threatened by a monarch’s jealousy, and found ...

(RNS) — Pope Francis asked to be buried in St. Mary Major ... that today commonly show Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus, and the Franciscans take the Christ child’s humble beginnings as ...

So when I saw the charcoal, I immediately thought of drawing with it. And I was near the (St. Joseph and the Child Jesus) statue when I saw that charcoal, so it just kind of happened.” Billingsley had ...

There are, first, the Epistles of St. Paul ... tied to Jesus’ baptism by John. In various texts, including Apocryphal works that date to around the same time as the Gospels proper, Joseph ...

As we recently celebrated the Solemnity of St. Joseph ... often portrayed Joseph in the background, holding a carpenter’s tool or cradling the Christ Child. One striking example is Guido Reni’s “Saint ...

A statue of St. Joseph and the Christ Child is pictured at Jesus the Divine Word Church in Huntington, Md., April 1, 2022. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops-organized Novena to St. Joseph for ...

AVON LAKE, Ohio - There is still lots of summer left for students and staff to enjoy, but St. Joseph Parish Catholic ... forming young men in the image of Jesus Christ who are dedicated to faith ...