In Matthew’s infancy narrative, the evangelist informs us that Joseph, being righteous, decided to divorce Mary quietly. How did deciding to divorce Mary make Joseph righteous or just? First, Mary ...

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 ...

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.

Have you ever dealt with someone who insisted s/he was right — even smugly so — while actually being objectively, measurably and completely wrong? Now, let me ask a tougher question: Have you ever ...

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.

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 ...