29th Sunday in Ordinary Time (2)

In the parable we hear in today’s gospel, Jesus’ point is not to liken God to the unjust judge who needs to be pestered into giving us what we need. Rather, Jesus wishes to contrast the unjust judge with God. If an unjust judge can give in to a persistent widow out of sheer …

Since the dawn of civilization, human beings have been struggling with the question of how to justify the authority of one person over another. What gives one person the right to tell another person what to do? In other words what gives authority its legitimacy, where does …