Last week, the Sunday Gospel began reading Matthew 13, a chapter that contains multiple parables about the Kingdom of Heaven. We began with the Parable of the Sower and Seed, discussing the fate of ...

One of my favorite parables of Jesus is found in Matthew 13:24-43 ... the Parable of the Wheat and the Weeds. It is a great reminder to all of us, in the church and outside the church, to not be so ...

Jesus told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.

The parable of the weeds among the wheat is found only in Matthew, and it is an eschatological parable, a parable about the Final Judgment. For gardeners, it evokes memories of hours in the garden, ...

“I love that Church which plunges into the thickets of human history and is not afraid of compromising itself by getting mixed up with men’s affairs … because it loves men and therefore goes out to ...

You can't fix the mortgage mess if you don't understand what caused it. That's not finger-pointing. That's common-sense. A Biblical parable offers insight into why bad mortgage loans now threaten ...

Jesus identified the characters as follows: the landowner is Jesus, the enemy is the devil, the field is the world, the wheat is the children of God, the weeds are those who belong to the devil, and ...

In my commentary for the Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, I called for us to move society out of the painful birth pangs of racism to deliver justice for all people. The readings from last week and ...

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