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5 shrines dedicated to St. Joseph in North America

March 19, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

The St. Joseph Oratory of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec. / Credit: Drone Tours/St. Joseph Oratory of Mount Royal

CNA Staff, Mar 19, 2024 / 05:00 am (CNA).
The feast of St. Joseph, celebrated on March 19, honors the foster father of Jesus and … […]

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Do you know how to make ‘St. Joseph’s bread’? Here’s the recipe

March 18, 2024 Catholic News Agency 1

St. Joseph’s altar at St. Mary’s Assumption Church in the Lower Garden District of New Orleans. / Credit: William A. Morgan/Shutterstock

ACI Prensa Staff, Mar 18, 2024 / 11:00 am (CNA).
In the book “Dining with the Saints” there is a special re… […]

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A Father’s Heart: Saint Joseph comes to theaters on May 1

April 28, 2023 Steven D. Greydanus 3

Everyone knows about Marian apparitions. Even in the minds of non-Catholics and nonbelievers, the names of Lourdes, Fátima, and Guadalupe are virtually synonymous with the Blessed Virgin Mary. Cotignac, in southeastern France, is a name […]

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How a forgotten nun’s visions shed ‘new light’ on the life of St. Joseph

March 19, 2023 Catholic News Agency 6

A detail from St. Joseph with the Child, by Francesco Conti (1681–1760) / Public domain

CNA Staff, Mar 19, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA).
St. Joseph does not have any words recorded in sacred Scripture, but the published meditations of an 18th-century … […]

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Pope Francis: St. Joseph shows us how to respond to disappointed dreams

December 18, 2022 Catholic News Agency 1

Pope Francis gives his Angelus address on Dec. 18, 2022 / Vatican Media.

Vatican City, Dec 18, 2022 / 05:30 am (CNA).
St. Joseph shows us how to “welcome surprises” when things do not go the way we expected, Pope Francis said Sunday in his week… […]

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St. Joseph’s doubt and the angel’s gift

December 16, 2022 Carl E. Olson 13

Readings: • Isa 7:10-14 • Ps 24:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 • Rom 1:1-7 • Mt 1:18-24 “Looking on thee, O Unwedded One, and dreading a hidden wedlock, O Sinless One, the chaste Joseph was riven in […]

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Pope Francis gifts his ‘dearest friend’ to Canada: St. Joseph

July 29, 2022 Catholic News Agency 2

Stained glass window depicting St. Joseph. / Shutterstock

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 29, 2022 / 16:40 pm (CNA).
As Pope Francis concludes his visit to Canada, he is leaving behind his “dearest friend”: St. Joseph.Before traveling to Iq… […]

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June 22, 2022 CWR Staff 11

Withholding the Eucharist – America Magazine argues that no one should be banned from the Eucharist. No one? Really? What about the unbaptized. Are they free to receive? What about Satanists?  The Apologetics of Abuse […]

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Catholicism, the traditional family, and the crisis of fatherhood

June 18, 2022 Dr. Christopher Shannon 12

I recently received an e-mail with the curious subject line: “Men are like water heaters”. I opened up the e-mail to find a picture of a confused-looking, middle-aged man struggling to fix a water heater […]

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St. Joseph the Worker and the spirituality of work

May 1, 2022 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 5

Editor’s note: The following homily was preached in advance of the memorial of St. Joseph the Worker (April 30, 2022) at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City. On May 1, 1955, […]

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