In July, still remembering the birth of our nation, there are thoughts of Patriotism and what it means for us today.

Anyone with eyes to see knows that pubs, restaurants and coffee bars are suffering. In every direction when I drive from my ...

The sower originally was Jesus, who came teaching the word of God (the seed) and seeking a harvest. Today, anyone who shares ...

Jesus lived a virtuous life to the full, by bearing fruits of salvation of entire humanity. His disciples testify that having been anointed by the Holy Spirit, He went around doing good and healing ...

An exterior view of the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the church is the oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the south and was constructed in 1891. In June 2015 it was ...

The Parable of the Sower is introduced in the New Testament’s Gospel of Matthew, which describes Jesus telling a crowd of people a story in which a farmer indiscriminately sows his seeds across ...

Jesus uses the image of the seed many times, with different meanings. In chapter 13 of the Gospel of Matthew, the parable of the sower introduces a series of other short parables, some of which talk ...

Pope Leo XIV uses Van Gogh’s ‘Sower at Sunset’ to show how God’s Word is scattered freely — and how even fractured ground can yield a golden harvest.

The Word of Jesus is “for everyone” and “works in each person in different ways.” The sower in the parable does not worry about where the seed falls, which seems counterintuitive.

In his first public general audience address, Pope Leo XIV said he would continue his predecessor’s reflection on Jesus Christ as a source of hope during the ongoing Jubilee year, and prayed for ...

The Gospel parable of the “wasteful sower” who casts seeds on fertile soil as well as on a rocky path “is an image of the way God loves us,” Pope Leo XIV told 40,000 visitors and pilgrims ...