When people see how God loves and trusts them, the pope said, it should encourage them to be “better soil.” Pope Leo urged ...

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Gospel parable of the “wasteful sower” who casts seeds on fertile soil as well as on a rocky path “is an image of the way God loves us,” Pope Leo XIV told ...

Reflecting on the parable of the sower, Leo noted the unusual behavior of the sower in the story, who “does not care where the seed falls. He throws the seeds even where it is unlikely they will bear ...