Pope Leo XVI warns against ‘selling yourself to the first bidder’

Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics to not delay in pursuing their faith during his Wednesday General Audience.

He was speaking about the parable on the laborers in the vineyard Jesus gives in the Gospel of Matthew, when the landowner hires people at different hours of the day but gives them all the same wages.

“The metaphor of the marketplace is very appropriate for our times,” the pope says, “because the market is the place of business, where unfortunately even affection and dignity are bought and sold...