“The trial that St. Joseph encountered in Mary’s pregnancy cannot be overstated,” Schadt told the Register. “Joseph knew Mary’s holiness, her purity, her interior and external beauty ...

When St. Joseph first learned that Mary, his betrothed, was pregnant, his dreams for the future must have been shattered, Pope Francis said. “What would Joseph have felt?

That is it. Luke does not mention contractions, stages of labor or what Mary did with her placenta. Most significantly, for my purposes, he did not mention what St. Joseph did at the scene of the ...