Now if Joseph was a righteous, devout Jew, he would have known that Leviticus 20:10 says very clearly that the punishment for adultery is stoning. And if Joseph had been one to stone first and ask ...

The angel wouldn’t have said “Do not be afraid” unless there was something to fear.The Feast of St. Joseph, Guardian of Our Lord, is what I call an orphan solemnity in the Church. Not much is made of ...

When is lying acceptable? Required? The Jewish tradition is to explore fundamental questions, including those involving ethics and theology, through storytelling rather than purely conceptual debate.

Find today’s readings here. When I was a child attending Catholic school, statues of Mary and Joseph flanked the school’s entryway. Although my class was ethnically diverse, Mary and Joseph were ...

IN his narrative of the birth of Jesus, Saint Matthew is giving us a theological reflection on the meaning of Jesus. The birth narrative is like the overture that sounds the themes that would be ...

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Today in the Matins service of Holy and Great Monday, the Church commemorates holy and Righteous Joseph the chaste, whose story was read in church last Wednesday at the reading of the Old Testament.

Prayers at Joseph's Tomb Monday nightIsrael news photo: One Shechem A crowd of 2,000 people, from all stripes of Israeli society, prayed at Joseph’s Tomb (Kever Yosef) Monday night on the eve of the ...

Yosef, in our tradition, is called Yosef הצדיק: Joseph the righteous. Perhaps this is the reason for the steps that Yosef- who appeared to his brothers, as an Egyptian nobleman, second only to Pharoah ...