Andrew Costello likes his homilies fresh. The 75-year-old priest at St. Mary’s in Annapolis, known by many as Father Andy, sometimes finishes writing his homilies just minutes before stepping up to ...

The Mass also marked the Jubilee Year, launched on Christmas, with Francis noting that 'Mary is the door through which Christ entered this world,' quoting St. Ambrose. Pope Francis delivers his homily ...

Each of us is presented with the same vocation as Mary. God says to you and to me, "Make my Son present in the world. Forgive sins. Bring healing. Live with faith that my love is stronger than your ...

In St. Peter's basilica this morning, the Holy Father delivered the following homily at Mass on New Year's Day, the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, and World Day of Peace. Last month, the Vatican ...

Bishop J. Kevin Boland, standing on the portico at St. Mary's Home, began his homily Sunday by reading aloud an e-mail. The message had been sent recently from a woman who lived at St. Mary's with her ...

The Rev. John Tizio, pastor of St. Mary’s Parish in Annapolis for eight years, has been reassigned to a church in Pennsylvania in one of a number of routine transfers announced recently by 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 ...

Janice Sevre-Duszynska, a priest with the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests, wrote the following homily for the celebration of Mary Magdalene’s feast day, and read it during a July 18 mass ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — At a church in a Roman suburb on Sunday (May 4), Congolese Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu of Kinshasa preached on a story from the Gospel of John in which Jesus’ followers in ...

Pope Francis accepts offertory gifts from children dressed as the Three Kings as he celebrates Mass on the feast of Mary, Mother of God, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Jan. 1, 2023. (CNS ...