Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his first homily to the cardinals, Pope Leo XIV said that the Roman Catholic Church must be humble and lead through example - ...

In my last column, I discussed the Pew Research Center’s recently-released study entitled, “The Digital Pulpit: A Nationwide Analysis of Online Sermons,” which examined the online audio or video ...

I think many Catholics secretly wish for it, especially during the summer: a pastor who always gives a short homily. In the history of the Church there haven’t been a lot of saints, let alone Doctors ...

A homily at Mass is not a mini catechism class, the Vatican says in a new document on homilies, but it is an opportunity to explain church teaching using the Scripture readings and the Catechism of ...

This is the English translation of the prepared text of the homily, delivered in Italian by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, for the funeral of Pope Francis in St.

For the better part of 40 years in churches across the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, clergy ceded the floor to laypeople for the delivery of the homily — the sermon that follows the reading of ...

In the Sistine Chapel this morning... UNIDENTIFIED CHOIR: (Singing in non-English language). DETROW: ...The newly elected pope, Leo XIV, celebrated his first public Mass as head of the Catholic Church ...

The most consistent comment that priests and deacons hear at the church door is “Good homily, Father” or “Appreciated your homily, Deacon.” What does that mean? Bishop Ken Untener, in his book ...

Ministry Brands, the leading provider of church management software and online giving solutions, today announced the launch of Equip, a ministry-built creative platform with more than 120 ...