In the Gospel reading on July 4, the same day that our nation celebrated its birth, Jesus called Matthew to join the ...

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In today's Gospel, the call of Matthew shows us just how freely the Lord offers communion and forgiveness. He calls us again and again, not despite our brokenness, but because of our brokenness and ...

In the book of Matthew, He ate with tax collectors and sinners. In Matthew 8:20, Jesus said, ‘The Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.’ He ate with sinners and fishermen.

And he got up and followed him. While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners sat with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many who followed him.

Brittney Phillips, a former clerk at the Rankin County Tax Collector's Office, has pleaded guilty to embezzlement and was sentenced to prison.

In Matthew 9, for example, the Pharisees angrily asked Jesus’ disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” ...

Jesus does not wait for sinners to change their lives before he welcomes them, said the preacher of the papal household.

In a hyper-masculine society, Jesus humbled himself by washing feet. Where the religious order cast tax collectors and sinners aside, Jesus ate dinner with them.

“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.

Jesus knew and taught that God loved His enemies and His goal was to turn sinners to God through helping people experience God’s mercy for them. (Matthew 9:13).