This year, the Knights have chosen an icon of St. Joseph holding the child Jesus created (or "written ... example and ask St. Joseph to be a father to us” as we seek to “grow in our own ...

‘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, ...

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. Joseph, the beloved spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary and earthly father of Jesus, is celebrated twice by the Catholic Church every year — first on March 19 for the feast of St. Joseph ...

The Holy Spirit, the “Spirit of the Father and the Son,” the “giver of life” and grace, hovers over St. Joseph, ready to lead him home. Jesus looks lovingly at St. Joseph, his right hand ...

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 ...

The question concerning Joseph’s paternity is whether he was a true father or if his was an honorary title. Some consider Joseph’s paternity of Jesus to be based on his father — like love ...

They shared the joyous jousting of the father-son tug of love. Joseph may have hewn special wooden toys and told Jesus stories of the patriarchs, of the Exodus and the Exile to Babylon.

This literally means that according to that linkage to King David, Jesus Christ was in the blood line of Joseph. Accordingly, this would mean Joseph was the biological father of Jesus. However ...

since Joseph was the legal father who raised Jesus. Catholics believe Mary and Joseph had what the Catholic Church calls a “Josephite marriage” – that is, one that meets Catholicism’s ...