With a father’s heart

The apostolic letter on Saint Joseph begins with the words “with a father’s heart” that is how “the patriarch of Nazareth” loved Jesus whom all four Gospels refer to as the “son of Joseph”. This apostolic letter published on 8 December 2020 brings the memory of the Church back to Pope Pius IX who, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in 1870, proclaimed St Joseph the Patron of the…