The rich man is damned not for what he did, but for what he didn't do. He continually saw Lazarus suffering and did nothing.

Riding into church with our grandchildren, we play a game we’ve dubbed “Green Go, Red Stop.” As you might guess, it is a game ...

In other words, people can form communities and adopt rituals without religion, and “nonreligious people have worldviews,” ...

This is the Gospel for today, September 19, which is the Saturday of the Twenty-fourth week in ordinary time. READ MORE: ...

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

When a great crowd was gathering and people from town after town came to him, Jesus said in a parable, 'A sower went out to ...

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, ...

Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go ...

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

We can make all the excuses we want for our lack of charity, but Jesus just calls it what it is -- idolatry. "You cannot serve God and mammon," Jesus says.

'For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, "He has a demon." The Son of Man has come ...

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