Jesus’s parable of the workers in the vineyard mirrors the harsh realities of exploitative economic and agricultural systems, urging us to imagine a world that nurtures both land and people. Workers ...

The practice of hiring casual labour on a pay-by-day basis was standard at British dockyards until the middle of the last century, but it could be seen still ...

CWN Editor's Note: At his weekly public audience on June 4, Pope Leo XIV spoke about the parable of the laborers in the vineyard, saying that “it is a parable that gives hope.” The Pope focused on the ...

In our Gospel today (Matthew 20:1-16a), a landowner goes out at dawn, nine o’clock, noon, three o’clock, and five o’clock to hire day laborers for his vineyard. That’s already very strange. Why ...

While the Gospel of this Sunday, September 20, might make us feel the same resentment as the workers of the parable, the truth that Jesus illustrates is not something to resent, but rather something ...