Pharisees were religious zealots who were very legalistic in nature. They would often expound the Scriptures in the synagogues and pray before people. They appeared very pious and in people’s eyes, it ...

While Jesus includes outcasts in his ministry, He does so to call them to repentance (Lk 5:32). Salvation was not without implications in so much as it involved following Jesus and observing his ...

It’s the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel is a story when our Lord Jesus Christ chastised the Pharisees and the scribes for being strict on their rules, but he calls them hypocrites.

Presenting the Pharisees as self-righteous hypocrites concerned more with the law than with people is prejudicial, biblically inaccurate and offensive to many Jews, several scholars said. The ...

Over the years of writing this column, I’ve been chastised many times for sounding like I believe Christians can vote only for “right-wing conservatives.” “You should be more open-minded,” some have ...

Evangelical Republicans today are like certain characters in the Bible in Jesus’ day, the very spiritual, very educated, very rich, very law-abiding, and very beautifully clothed Pharisees. Jesus ...

Evangelical Republicans today are like certain characters in the Bible in Jesus’ day — the very spiritual, very educated, very rich, very law-abiding, and very beautifully clothed Pharisees. Jesus ...

Evangelical Republicans today are like certain characters in the Bible in Jesus’ day, the very spiritual, very educated, very rich, very law-abiding and very beautifully clothed Pharisees. Jesus could ...