Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Samaritans celebrate Shavuot atop Mount Gerizim, near the West Bank. Nidal Eshtayeh/Xinhua via Getty Images "Good Samaritan" is a ...

In December 2024, the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act became law. Lauded by the National Mining Association as “the final step in securing a key solution to tackle the ...

My father, Dr. Peter Watson, was on his way to the fishing grounds off Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina, in early May 2020 when he heard a mayday call over the VHF radio. He listened closely to the ...

In Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan, a traveler encounters a man beaten by robbers and left for dead by the roadside. Moved with pity, the traveler stopped to help, unlike others who had passed ...

Who among us hasn’t heard the parable of the Good Samaritan, the focus of today’s Gospel? It’s often called Jesus’ “most famous” parable, which always amuses me. As if there is some sort of ...

Like his predecessors Benedict XVI and John Paul II, Pope Francis often introduces the theme of his writings by way of a spiritual exegesis of an event in the ministry of Jesus or a biblical text.

Carla Hinton’s recent story in The Oklahoman about an Oklahoma City immigration forum got me thinking about perhaps the ...

A scholar of the law tried to trip up Jesus by asking him, "Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Like any good teacher, Jesus turned the tables on him and asked, "What is written in the ...

There is a quiet pressure that shapes much of modern life, rarely acknowledged but relentlessly looming over us. It is the need to justify ourselves. We curate résumés, photos and social media content ...

As the Kyle Rittenhouse case continues to draw out, I don't know if explosive is the right word, but details continue to come to light. I want to discuss the Rittenhouse case, but in the context of ...