Jesus’ parable of the vineyard workers is directed to his disciples, so it is an instruction for insiders. Its message addresses a tension in the community about inclusion as well as God’s mercy.

The rabbis no doubt interpreted their parables explicitly, at least sometimes; there is no reason to believe that Jesus would have employed the parables differently from other rabbis.

In our Gospel reading this morning our Lord Jesus Christ once again tells us the parable of the vineyard, and in this parable there is a wealthy man who owns a plot of ground and who plants a vineyard ...

Our Sunday gospel reading today is another parable that our Lord Jesus Christ told to his disciples, which they handed down to all Christianity 2,000 years later.

I cannot disagree more with Dr. Aaron Rosen’s dark portrayal of Jesus’ parables (“What would Jesus do now? It’s actually a radical question,” Jan. 5 ). It is disheartening to have a ...

After returning from the dedication of the altar at the cathedral in Albano, Italy, Sunday morning, Pope Benedict spoke about Sunday’s Gospel, the parable of the workers in the vineyard. The ...

Jesus slipped another passion prediction into this parable, not so subtly presenting himself as God’s son — the last one sent by the owner of the vineyard. The angry listeners, as if on ...

It is the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel talks about the generosity of the master of the vineyard that you can find in your Bible in Matt.20-1-16.