This trend is evident in a guest opinion submitted by Peter Crabb, a professor of economics and director of the Center for the Study of Market Alternatives at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, ...

REFLECTIONS TODAYIn the light of today’s Gospel, we wonder if we would accept Jesus the way most of the Jewish authorities did, or the way the disciples ...

In this Sunday’s Gospel passage, Jesus delivers three final parables, again teaching his disciples about what Matthew refers ...

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One of Christianity's longest-running debates hinges on a passage from the Bible that refers to the brothers and sisters of ...

The word parable comes from the Greek pará (alongside) and báll? (throw). When you pitch a comparison or analogy, you don’t ...

Last time, we shared that the Word of God, the Bible, concerns the promise or covenant with God (Old Testament), the fulfillment of the Old Testament (First Coming), the covenant with Jesus (New ...

Jesus teaches a lesson of perseverance in the face of evil in His parable of the weeds among the wheat, in the Gospel passage for this Sunday's liturgy that Msgr. Joseph Prior explains.

A simile likens one thing to another, but this also implies that the two differ. Otherwise, there would not be two. Jesus says that “The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a man who sowed good seed ...

Discussions around these teachings ignore the central characteristics of socialism; that is, the use of force. | Opinion ...

Why does God speak in parables? In our Gospel today (Matthew 13:1-23), Jesus, the storyteller, invites the vast expectant crowd to consider the parable of the sower. His disciples later approach him ...

This pattern – already won, not yet complete – is the "already but not yet," and it is not a contradiction. It is the very fabric of the Christian life.