Such attention to the story allows the parables to become genuinely subversive. “Perhaps,” Bodner notes, “we’re all ...

This Sunday’s Gospel compares the heavy load that Lazarus lived because of his poverty with the supposed lightness of a rich ...

Pope Leo XIV expressed his closeness to those living in the Gaza Strip during his weekly Angelus message on Sept. 21.

That happens for me in today’s passage from Luke, which doesn’t feature a parable or a healing or really much of a story at ...

The Holy Father explained that, like the steward in the parable, “we are not the masters of our lives or of the goods we ...

Father Joshua Whitfield provides a reflection on the readings and Gospel for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sept. 21, 2025 ...

I’m thinking about the parable of the rich man and the poor man, in Luke 16:19-31. It’s the story where a rich man wears luxurious purple garments and dines “sumptuously” ...

He sits with tax collectors and sinners." This is a common attack Jesus receives in the New Testament. For instance, in Luke 15, a crowd gathers to hear Jesus teach. The crowd is divided. On one side, ...

Jesus seems to praise a dishonest person in this Sunday's Gospel. Msgr. Joseph Prior explores the teaching, which prioritizes attaining good things cleverly over mere money.

This is the text of Pope Leo XIV’s Sept. 21, 2025, Angelus message given in St. Peter’s Square Dear brothers and sisters, ...

In his “Second Homily on Lazarus,” St. John Chrysostom said that the “rich man is a kind of steward of the money which is ...