The elites would have seen themselves in the parables as the farmers renting the vineyard from the landowner who was away. The people would have viewed themselves as the indentured workers who daily ...

An Editor at Large: Columnist Gerard Baker draws on the tale of the vineyard owner and the two sons to explain why market reaction to Kevin Warsh’s nomination suggests he is likely to do the right ...

The upcoming lectionary passage in Matthew 20:1-16 strikes me as timely. The attitude we see here—the attitude of the workers who worked all day and are angry about those who received the same pay for ...

Canva image Gospel reflection for Oct. 11, 2026, 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Last weekend we saw the workers in the vineyard kill the son of the landowner in their desire to seize control of the ...

The theme of the vineyard is also at the center of to Sunday’s Gospel reading (Mt 21:33–43), ...

The villains in today’s gospel parable are not thieves who creep into the vineyard under cover of darkness. They are something more subtle and, therefore, more dangerous: they are squatters.

There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence round it and dug a wine press in it and built a tower ...

During the week, Pope Leo concluded his trip to France. Leo recalled something of the turbulent history in France with the French Revolution and the contemporary French idea of laïcité.  France was ...