This Christmas, if you see a Nativity scene with Joseph s silhouette leaning quietly over the Christ-child, pause for a ...

'The Holy Family,' by the 17th-century Spanish painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo. The Print Collector/Hulton Fine Images via Getty Images The United States celebrates Father’s Day on the third Sunday ...

Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

For an estimated 2 billion believers worldwide, the Holy Family isn’t a myth but three real people who lived in ancient Palestine, Biblical figures whose lives can be told by way of geography, ...

If you believe, as I do, that Jesus was the son of God, then it’s instructive to consider the man and woman God chose to serve as earthly caregivers for his child. Theoretically, the Lord could have ...

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 dad.” I ...

The stained glass series recently showcased Bethesda Episcopal Church in Saratoga Springs, where one window depicts Jesus as a preschooler helping Joseph, looking devastated, burying a child’s coffin.

Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

A long-forgotten book, left out of the Bible and written nearly 1,900 years ago, reveals secret stories of Jesus' childhood that the early church kept under wraps for centuries. Known as the Infancy ...

With St. Joseph, the old truism — “Actions speak louder than words” — comes to mind. Saints across the centuries with devotion to St. Joseph know it firsthand and show us how we, too, can have the ...

As the Solemnity of St. Joseph falls every year during Lent, both Lent and his feast day are excellent reminders that there was sorrow as well as joy in St. Joseph’s life — and his reponse can aid our ...