“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 ...

Find today’s readings here. “And who is my neighbor?” (Lk 10:29) It is almost certainly the most famous parable in the Gospels. The term “good Samaritan” is no longer tethered to its biblical context, ...

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 dissertation begins with a history of research. Early Christian writers and the Fathers of the Church tended to interpret the parable of the Good Samaritan allegorically. This method of ...

(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 ...

When we picture ourselves as heroes, we often forget our humanity. It seems to me that many of us read the parable of the Good Samaritan with an unstated understanding that its basic message is “For ...

Pope Leo XIV held the second general audience of his pontificate today in which he reflected on the parable of the good Samaritan. At the beginning of his catechesis, addressed to the faithful ...

In a very seventeenth-century-coded turn of events, the pope circulated a letter among the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rebuking (though without naming) the vice president over his ...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has challenged congregants at St. Mary’s Cathedral Lubaga to take seriously the examples ...

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 ...

(RNS) — ‘It is not enough to preach the values of compassion and respect,’ the vice president told a church crowd in Atlanta. ‘We must live them.’ That must apply to the Palestinian people. (RNS) — ...