The parable of the good Samaritan ends differently without the innkeeper. Arguably, without the innkeeper, the parable falls apart and the good deed falls short. The Samaritan, after all, is no ...

Illness is part of being human. How we deal with it is human, too. So Pope John Paul II established the Vatican World Day of the Sick in 1993 on the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes, Feb. 11, to ...

Most everyone has heard the story of the Good Samaritan during some point in their life. If asked to recount the story, nearly everyone would say something like “Someone’s hurt on the side of the road ...

This Sunday’s Gospel recounts the parable of the Good Samaritan. It also puts it in a context. The context is a test. A “scholar of the law” asked Jesus what he had to do to “inherit eternal life.” ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. When our son, Tory, was just a small boy, we were coming home from Sunday school and church, and I asked him what he had ...

About 100 generations ago, the story of the Good Samaritan was first told. Since then, empires have come and gone. Through floods, droughts, time and war, thousands of cemeteries have been filled, ...