The Church’s Sunday Gospels rotate over three years among the three Synoptics, and 2020 is the year of St. Matthew. Last year, Leroy A. Huizenga provided the faithful with a fitting commentary on this ...

The Gospel of Matthew is concerned with the position of these early Christian churches within Israel, or in its relationship to what we call Judaism. And these are concerns that belong to the time ...

Each Gospel writer presents Jesus in a unique way. Last week, we saw Him introduced by John as the eternal Word, light and ...

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill them" (Matthew 5:17). This verse comes from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three ...

In today’s Gospel, we read the parable of the generous landowner, which builds on themes of mercy using images of economic and social disparities. This parable has several interpretive possibilities.

Last week, Pope Leo XIV spoke of the Parable of the Vineyard Workers, from the Gospel of Matthew (20:1-16), observing: “For the owner of the vineyard, that is, for God, it is just that each person has ...

The Gospel According to St. Matthew has been extravagantly hailed as the best film ever made about Christ, possibly one of the best films ever made. Nothing in my experience of De Mille-school ...

The tutorial segment on “The Three Stages of Gospel Development” noted that the most important “stage” for Christian faith is the time of the Gospel writers. This is because it is there that the ...

An eye-witness received special grace and guidance from the Holy Spirit to give a faithful account of information received from other sources. The Gospel of Matthew is a treasure house stored with a ...

The evangelist who composed the gospel of Matthew was probably a Jewish Christian, possibly a scribe. The historical evidence suggests that he wrote between 80 and 90 CE and addressed his work to a ...