The annual challenge for clerics is to present a story listeners think they know everything about — the Son of God being born in a manger to a Virgin far from home — and offer something new ...

Pope Francis got seven seconds of applause recently when he said that some Catholic preachers talk too much. “At times, there are long sermons, 20 minutes, 30 minutes. But, please, preachers ...

On Sundays, Anthony Liguori Jr. wears the vestments of a Catholic deacon as he delivers baptisms, confirmations and homilies in his Bergen County church. Then, on many nights, he slips into ...

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 4 - Pope Francis said at his weekly general audience in St Peter's Wednesday that priests should avoid over-long homilies, which should be 10 minutes maximum. "Many times there ...

While society is increasingly focused on pushing the limits of human achievement, it must not lose sight of its duty to ...