"Pope Francis has proclaimed that the Church will honor St. Joseph in a particular way over the course of the next year. The pope’s announcement of a Year of St. Joseph purposely coincided with the 150th anniversary of the saint’s proclamation as patron of the Universal Church by Pope Pius IX on Dec. 8, 1870."

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