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Fatherhood and St. Joseph, by Stephen P. White – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Saint Joseph, Carpenter by Georges de la Tour, 1642-44 [Louvre Paris]

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing, May 1, 2025

Stephen P. White is executive director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America and a fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Note: Be sure to tune in tonight – Thursday, May 1st at 8 PM Eastern – to EWTN for a new episode of the Papal Posse on ‘The World Over.’ TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal and contributor Fr. Gerald E. Murray will join host Raymond Arroyo to discuss the coming conclave to choose the successor to Pope Francis, as well as other issues in Rome this week and in the global Church. Check your local listings for the channel in your area. Shows are usually available shortly after first airing on the EWTN YouTube channel.

Today, May 1, the Church celebrates St. Joseph the Worker. It is often remarked of Joseph that Scripture records none of his words. While it is true that no direct word of Joseph’s is recorded in Scripture, it is from Joseph’s own lips that the name of Jesus, the name announced privately to Mary and in a dream to Joseph, is first announced publicly among the people of Israel: “And he [Joseph] named him Jesus.” (Matthew 1:25)

Joseph, as we know, was not the natural father of Jesus. But Joseph, on behalf of the God-child’s true Father, gave him the name by which the world would know him: Jesus. And it was in the home of Joseph that the Incarnate Word practiced obedience: “He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart.” ….

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