The church as the home of our humanity lies latent in Ezekiel’s vision of a new and eternal temple in Jerusalem, built upon a ...

Father Joshua J. Whitfield reflects on the readings and Gospel for the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Nov. 16, 2025.

The General Instruction of the Roman Missal, or GIRM, gives the following 216 words about the homily in its instructions ...

Whenever I participate in Eucharistic celebrations, I find it consoling to listen to a well-prepared homily. A good homily enables me to enter more deeply into the mystery of faith celebrated in the ...

Catholic priests around the country have discussed the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk during their homilies in the last week. Kirk, 31, was shot during a campus event at Utah ...

The Vatican will publish the previously uncirculated “private” homilies of the late Pope Benedict XVI in the coming year, the Holy See has announced. The Vatican Publishing House said Dec. 23 that it ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As news events made headlines across the United States for months last year — particularly the 2020 election, the coronavirus pandemic and racism in America — priests’ homilies did ...

In a Sunday morning homily on sin, a Catholic Diocese of Knoxville priest condemned Knox News for its ongoing reporting on two separate sexual assault complaints against the church and the diocese’s ...

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, ...