Today’s readings are about widows. Widows who rely on God’s Providential care. The widow of Zarephath and the widow with her mite. “Abusing the widow and the orphan” was, in Catholic theology, among ...

The sacred things of our Catholic faith must be freed from their ties with money, Pope Francis said on Sunday. In a reflection on the Gospel of the “widow’s mite” on Nov. 7, the Pope praised the woman ...

John Everett Millais' "The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow" is almost as intriguing as Jesus' parable on which the image is based: A persistent widow unrelentingly demands justice from an ...

"Our help is in the name of the Lord!" That's today's psalm response. Do we mean it? If so, what do we mean by it? The framers of our Lectionary paired today's selection from Exodus with Jesus' ...

On its current path, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints could be worth at least a trillion dollars by 2044, up from more than $200 billion today. Those findings are part of The Widow’s ...

Not long ago I found myself addressing a conference on theology and neurodiversity—I believe the first of its kind. As I prepared, I reflected on the story of the widow and the unjust judge in Luke 18 ...

The dystopian America Octavia Butler imagines in her novels Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, both written in the 1990s, is eerily familiar—a failing education system, the dissolving of ...