This image of the Holy Family, created by artist David Hayward, emphasizes the fact that Mary, Joseph and Jesus were refugees, a frightful circumstance, as contributor Cathleen Falsani points out ...

Ron Rolheiser: Mary, mother of Jesus Mary was a Jewish girl who would have been 14 or 15 when betrothed to Joseph in an arranged marriage.

California church Nativity depicts Jesus, Mary and Joseph in cages as family separated at border It used the display to speak out against the Trump administration's policies.

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.

Invoking the New Testament tyrant whose vow to kill Jesus prompted Mary and Joseph to flee to Egypt, Francis said some modern-day migrants are "surviving the Herods of today, who, to impose their ...

It depicts Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus each individually entrapped inside cells fenced with chain link and topped with razor wire, with harsh light beaming down on them from above.

A Byzantine icon brought to Venice in 1349 depicts Mary and baby Jesus. In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, from around the sixth century until the present, the child Jesus looks like a little man ...

Statues of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus are shown in a cage of chain-link fencing on the lawn of Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Indianapolis on July 3. The statues were placed there to ...

Watching our children’s nativity plays this year made me reflect on how Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus would fare if they were forced to flee Bethlehem for modern day England rather than Egypt ...

A church sign has drawn parallels between the birth of Jesus and the modern plight of refugees. Everyone knows the story of how Joseph and Mary were in a spot of bother when baby Jesus decided to ...

REAL JESUS – I think the nativity set’s stable that my mother put out every December for decades was made of sturdy cardboard, and the animals, shepherds, Wise Men, Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus ...

I write about this question in my book, “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph: Family Trouble in the Infancy Gospels.” The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a key source for my book, describes the childhood of Jesus.