The story of Jesus's birth is oft told, but Mary and Joseph's unconventional courtship can also be found in the history of Judea. HISTORY MAGAZINE Here’s what biblical scholars say.

Delbert Edwin Weddle Jr, 77, peacefully returned to his heavenly home on May 9, 2025. Del was born Nov. 27, 1947 to Delbert and Alice (Wyatt) Weddle, in St. Joseph, and graduated from Central High ...

People visit the Pauline Chapel, where the icon of Madonna and Child Jesus is displayed, inside the Vatican’s Basilica of St. Mary Major, in Rome Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023.

While at St. Joseph's, Tobin applied to join the Redemptorists, who accepted him as a candidate, his biography says. He professed vows in 1973 and solemn vows in 1976.

A memorial Mass will be celebrated at noon on Friday, April 25, at the Cathedral of St. Joseph, 2305 W. Main St. in Jefferson City. Additional memorial Masses will be at other diocese churches.

Crews battle a fire at St. Joseph’s Church, built in 1905, on North Fourth Street in Yakima, Wash., July 31, 1999. (Yakima Herald-Republic file) ...

At the traditional St. Joseph's Day dinner are from the left, Justice Orlando (Lindy) Marrazzo Jr., Joseph Romagnolo, Rev. Michael Martine, Dr. Marianne LaBarbera, Rev. Louis Jerome ...

It can be hard to see the dignity of work in our post-industrial stratified world. In this Jubilee year, the church prompts us to turn to St. Joseph, whose work was filled with hope for salvation.

Jesus is an assurance that God all-powerful isn’t careless, hurtful and vicious like the gods of Ancient Greece and Rome, but that instead, he cares infinitely for each human heart. The Nativity ...

Every year we set up a traditional manger scene near our Christmas tree. There are Mary and Joseph, a shepherd and a few sheep, three wise men and at least one camel, and the baby Jesus. For years ...

Every year we set up a traditional manger scene near our Christmas tree. There are Mary and Joseph, a shepherd and a few sheep, three wise men and at least one camel, and the baby Jesus. For years ...

Baby Jesus in the manger. Around him, shepherds, animals, angels and three wise men: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. Two of them are white, one of them Black. Above them, the Star of Bethlehem gleams.