Many couples today face childlessness and infertility, but they are far from the first. Sts. Anne and Joachim, whose feast day is July 26, are known as the grandparents of Jesus and the parents of ...

CONEY ISLAND — Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens on Monday, Dec. 9, held a dedication and grand opening of the new permanent chapel at Saints Joachim and Anne Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, an ...

The past few days I have felt like a dutiful Sunday school student again, trying and trying to extrapolate lessons from today’s Gospel’s parable of the weeds. I have considered that there is a lesson ...

The parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Sts. Joachim and Anne, are not mentioned in the Bible. Instead, we know of them through apocryphal literature — biblical writings such as the Protoevangelium of ...