It is the heart of the pope’s reflection on this theme (occupying no less than 20 sections of the encyclical), and also his central point of reference: “Although this Letter is addressed to all people ...

Find today’s readings here. Today’s Gospel reading is the parable of the Good Samaritan. Because the story and its message are so familiar, the word “Samaritan” has lost its sting for today’s audience ...

In a very seventeenth-century-coded turn of events, the pope circulated a letter among the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rebuking (though without naming) the vice president over his ...

Find today’s readings here. “And who is my neighbor?” (Lk 10:29) It is almost certainly the most famous parable in the Gospels. The term “good Samaritan” is no longer tethered to its biblical context, ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) The parable of the Good Samaritan is a beautiful story superbly told by the master of story telling. One would be hard-pressed to mention story tellers comparable to Jesus Christ, ...

The acquittal of Daniel Penny by a Manhattan jury is a relief, and not only because my teenage children ride the subways alone to travel home from school at night (“Merry Christmas, Daniel Penny” by ...

Jason Richmond, Founder and Chief Culture Officer of Ideal Outcomes, Inc. Author of Culture Ignited: 5 Disciplines for Adaptive Leadership. A famous study conducted at Princeton Theological Seminary ...

Most everyone has heard the story of the Good Samaritan during some point in their life. If asked to recount the story, nearly everyone would say something like “Someone’s hurt on the side of the road ...