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Anthony Esolen
Who is the Good Samaritan?
Pierre Manent, First Things
Thursday, December 17, 2020
In Fratteli Tutti, Pope Francis makes some important points about the Good Samaritan. But an equivocation concludes the exegesis that aims less at examining the Gospel text to see what it says exactly, than at drawing certain elements from the parable that would appear to support a view of the human and social world that is largely independent of the Gospel.