Dear Friends of Joseph House: Last month we presented some thoughts on the Good Samaritan courtesy of Pope Benedict. We’d like to do a little more with help from Pope Francis this time, who wrote an excellent commentary on the parable in his encyclical, On Fraternity and Social Friendship. Francis takes a look at each…
Dear Friends of Joseph House: Here’s a fun fact: centuries ago, if you had called a nun “silly,” she would have taken it as a compliment! She probably wouldn’t today (although personally we would smile and nod and say yes, sometimes it’s true), but back in the Middle Ages the word meant pious and devout….
One of the most familiar passages in Scripture is the story of the Good Samaritan. Even people who say they don’t know much about the Bible know how the story goes: a man was attacked by robbers and left beaten and bloodied by the side of the road. Two others came along, a priest and…