I have the joy of celebrating this Eucharist with you. I greet all those present, the parish community, the priests, and His Eminence, the Bishop of the Diocese, and the civil and military authorities ...

The Gospel passage this Sunday was one of the Lord’s most beloved parables, that of the “Good Samaritan.” This stands out, because Samaritans appear only irregularly in the Gospels. Mark doesn’t ...

The parable of the Good Samaritan (cf. Luke 10:25-37) could be called a story of one ordinary person speaking to another. Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti not surprisingly recalls it within the ...

In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest ...

Jesus overturns our way of thinking by presenting us with a Samaritan, a foreigner or heretic, who acts as a neighbor. The parable of the Good Samaritan is about seeing, said Pope Leo XIV in his ...

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 1944, in Markowa, Poland, a German firing squad executed Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, their six children and unborn child, and the two Jewish families they had been sheltering. Beatified as martyrs by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carla Hinton's recent story in The Oklahoman about an Oklahoma City immigration forum got me thinking about perhaps the best-known ...

We will continue to meditate on some parables of the Gospel, which are an opportunity to change perspective and open ourselves up to hope. The lack of hope, at times, is due to the fact that we fixate ...

In the Book of Luke, chapter 10, Jesus told the “Parable of the Good Samaritan.” Is it time for a rewrite? This was the story of a man who was robbed, beaten and left for dead. A priest and a Levite ...

Carla Hinton’s recent story in The Oklahoman about an Oklahoma City immigration forum got me thinking about perhaps the best-known parable in the Bible. More than 250 people gathered at Wesley United ...