John Everett Millais' "The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow" is almost as intriguing as Jesus' parable on which the image is based: A persistent widow unrelentingly demands justice from an ...

Our gospel reading today is yet another parable that our Lord Jesus Christ uses to teach his disciples and it comes from Luke 18:1-8… The Parable of the Persistent Widow. You might as well ...

Just before Jesus presented this parable, sometimes called the parable of the persistent widow, several Pharisees had quizzed him about the end times (Lk 17:20). This introduced a dialogue in ...

I have to confess at the start that the parable of the persistent widow baffles me. It raises more questions than it answers. Are we really expected to pester God in prayer the way the widow pesters ...

The Son of God is continually praying to the Father, acting as our High Priest as our care and concerns are brought before ...

Today’s Gospel teaches us about the importance of prayer and how much we should pray to God; it’s the Parable of the Persistent Widow. You can read it in Luke 18:1-8. “[Jesus] told [his ...

The parable of the widow and the unjust judge asks the guidance ... Jesus told the parable to affirm the power of persistent prayer. One issue where persistent prayer has been applied for ...

Now 91 years old, Frances Crowe has for 65 years been protesting against war and advocating for peace, human rights and environmental justice. She has been arrested and imprisoned for leading ...

The importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the ...

For the archbishop, the donations of the people of Tucuman for this new monstrance remind him of the Parable of the Widow’s Mite, where the poor woman gave a few coins, while the rich people ...