In the first of two programmes on the parables of Jesus, Sean Fletcher meets Christians inspired by one of his most famous ...

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 ...

This year’s principal observance is set to take place in Chiclayo, Peru, where Leo previously served as bishop.

The good Samaritan shows that "we are all in a position to respond" to anyone in need, he said. "And the mystery, which you ...

“Who is my neighbor?” is the provocative question posed to Jesus in the Gospel of Luke that leads into the parable of the good Samaritan, a parable for our times. The questioner is a self-righteous ...

(The Conversation) — Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary. (The Conversation) — The Bible story of the Good Samaritan is more ...

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 ...