Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Why is this group of people sick? Tax collectors were known to regularly extort and overcharge, making them public symbols of ...

Fr. David Paternostro, SJ, reflects on the apparent "contradiction" present in the Old Testament compared to Mark's Gospel concerning the application of God's law.

Though one could consider the question of the Pharisees from a variety of perspectives, let’s look at how Jesus responds to the Pharisees in the Gospel of Matthew.

The Pharisees might be good in what they teach, but not in their example: listen to their words, disregard their example. “Observe all things they tell you, but do not follow their example.” Why?

Pope Francis is being urged by experts to take greater care when referring to “hypocritical” Pharisees, a stereotype that fueled centuries of bad blood between Catholics and Jews. Catholic ...

We’re all more like the scribes and Pharisees than we’d like to be in this respect. Even when we know the truth about something and proclaim that truth out loud, we still struggle to do what ...

Giles Fraser and guests explore how the Pharisees became a byword for hypocrisy.

A common slam against American Christians by our critics is that, on the whole, we’ve become more akin to modern-day Pharisees than to the Lord. But is that true? Yes, apparently.