Of Squandering and Wastefulness

Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

It wasn’t that the “dishonest” steward had stolen from the master or overcharged the debtors. Rather, the New American Bible notes on this parable, in which the steward is ultimately applauded by the discharging master for removing his commission from the debtors’ bills,tell us, “The dishonesty of the steward consisted in the squandering of his master’s property...