Monsignor Pope Ping!
The Pharisees get a bad rap in the NT, but it is important to remember that Jesus was one of them, having been addressed throughout his ministry by the term “rabbi”. The Pharisees were then the only group ordaining rabbis by the rite of semicha, or “the laying on of hands”.
Secondly, the Pharisees developed into the rabbinate of Jewish Orthodoxy, and hence other branches of Judaism to the current day.
Jesus shows how little really belongs to Caesar.
Reading between the lines: Nothing belongs to Caesar, everything belongs to God.
Marxism is a Christian heresy, because it attempts to accomplish what Christianity apocalyptically promises, but without God. Aristotelianism is a pre-Christian heterodoxy, an ethics of the psychikos (his perfect man had megalopsyche), which Paul teaches in I Corinthians 2:14 is incapable of comprehending the Spirit of God.
This is why the doctrinally "orthodox" Christian, whether nominally Orthodox or any other denomination, is never at home with the Democrats or Greens (the Marxists), but is uncomfortable when residing with the Republicans or Libertarians (the Aristotelians).
many of the priests today missed a pro-life message in today’s gospel. It’s a shame, abortion could have been mentioned, there aren’t too many gospels where a priest could inculcate abortion and the pro-life message in his sermon, today could have been one of them.