WASHINTON, D.C. — A new analysis from the Pew Research Center shows that many Catholic priests are holding to Pope Francis’ advice to keep their homilies on the shorter side, especially compared to ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Christmas Mass during the Night in St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday. The Mass was attended by an ...

Pope Francis oversaw a Mass in Edmonton, Canada, on Tuesday as part of his apostolic journey. The pope was dressed in vestments made by an indigenous artist and carried a handcrafted crozier for the ...

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 morning Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito attended the Red Mass, a Roman Catholic liturgy held annually the Sunday before ...

Bolger is the associate chaplain for the Catholic community at Brown University, in which one of the two students killed in Saturday’s campus shooting was very involved, he said in an interview. The ...

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 ...

Lamont Gee of Philadelphia waits in a pew at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul to serve as cantor at a Mass for the end of the 2019-2020 school year. (CNS photo/Sarah Webb, ...

A new analysis from the Pew Research Center shows that many Catholic priests are holding to Pope Francis' advice to keep their homilies on the shorter side, especially compared to Protestant ...