March 19 is the Feast of St. Joseph — also known as St. Joseph's Day. The day celebrates the life of St. Joseph, "the spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, foster father of Jesus Christ, and patron ...

St. Joseph’s role in his relationship to Jesus was as the “earthly shadow of the heavenly Father,” Pope Francis wrote in his apostolic letter, Patris Corde: On the 150th Anniversary of the ...

St. Joseph, as an observant Jew, would have been keenly aware of God’s action in his family’s life and thus made himself, like Mary, “the servant of the Lord” (cf. Luke 1:38).

With Pope Francis having declared this the Year of St. Joseph through Dec. 8, fresh interest has been generated in the foster father of Jesus. Louise Perrotta is putting the finishing touches on a ...

He further connected Saint Joseph’s "great devotion" and willingness to "experience persecution, exile and poverty" to his vocation as a father, with his only reward being in Jesus’ presence.

On the 150 th anniversary of Blessed Pope Pius IX’s declaration of St. Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church and on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Pope Francis released his Apostolic ...

Likewise, John calls Jesus the “son of Joseph” (1:45). Thus, while Joseph played no biological or genetic role in his son’s birth, he was in all other respects his father.

Detail of St. Joseph with the Infant Jesus, c. 1620s, by Guido Reni.(Public domain/via Wikimedia) By Kathryn Jean Lopez About Kathryn Jean Lopez Follow Kathryn Jean Lopez on X March 25, 2024 6:30 AM ...

Pope Francis announced a Year of St. Joseph Tuesday in honor of the 150th anniversary of the saint's proclamation as patron of the Universal Church. The year begins Dec. 8, 2020, and concludes on ...

Pope Francis on Dec. 8 decreed a special year dedicated to St. Joseph for the global Catholic Church, offering the 1.2 billion members of the faith an opportunity to obtain indulgences as the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Today's Most Buffalo Story of the Day takes us to Corpus Christi Church in Buffalo where in March of 2019, we talked with Father Michal Czyżewski about a mysterious painting ...