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Thoughts from Teaching Preaching

By Richard Stern. It is easy for the homilist to spot the trouble, the evil, the sin in the world, but much harder to locate God’s continuing activity in the mundane aspects of living. (Subscription required)

The Best Preaching

Homily Background for July 22, 2012 - Year B. (Subscription required)

Source of Energy, Satisfaction, Brick Walls

Priestalk by Father Patrick M. Carrion. Preaching is typically listed near the top of the list for priests who are asked "What part of ministry do you enjoy most and what gives you much satisfaction?

Sacrificial Preaching

The challenge of preaching sacrifice

Preaching with Passion

By Richard Hart. Our challenge is to become our true and best selves

Preaching the Acts in the Easter Season

By Ronald D. Witherup. The Easter season affords priests the only opportunity to focus on the story of the Church as narrated in the Acts of the Apostles. (Subscription required)

Preaching Strategies

By Richard J. Hart, O.F.M. Cap. Good homilies are usually crockpot not microwave.

Preaching On the War

Free to registered users: Article by by Richard Hart,O.F.M. Cap. Wars don't just end, as we are finding out in Iraq. How to preach on the war without sounding unpatriotic.

Preaching On Sundays

By William J. Byron. Time to do something about the quality (Subscription required)

Preaching God's love

Any eulogy of Falwell would be incomplete without remembering his call to eternal truths.

Preaching God's glory

By Carl Olson. Our task is to share the news of God’s life and love to the ends of the earth and until the end of time

Preach What We Believe

By Msgr. Owen F. Campion. The Bill of Rights also gives us every opportunity to speak our minds aloud

Points on How to Preach a Very Bad Homily

By Basil Cole, O.P. A homily has to be a work of beauty with a beginning, a middle, and an end, that teaches, delights and inclines the audience to virtue

Parables for Preaching

Book Reviews by Mark G. Boyer

Openers: What you soon may be hearing from a pulpit near you

By John Norton. You may soon be hearing about the Gospel necessity of reaching out to the poor and jobless in your community.

More than words

By Teresa Tomeo. A faithful, silent witness to the Gospel speaks louder to those around us than clamorous preaching

Masterful preaching of Archbishop Fulton Sheen

By Emily Stimpson. New book details the popular American archbishop’s prayerful dedication to preparing and delivering powerful homilies that kept pews packed

Lay preaching limitations

By Msgr. M. Francis Mannion. Preaching the homily during Mass is restricted to bishops, priests and deacons

In Focus: A Great Catholic Mind

Through his writing and preaching, Venerable John Henry Newman used his immense intellectual gifts to draw souls to God and to the faith.

Getting to know the newest Doctor of the Church

By Thomas J. Craughwell. St. John of Ávila played an important role in the Counter-Reformation. Subscription required

Encountering Christ

By Carl Olson. The Church and the world need good preaching — and preachers who are in love with Jesus Christ

Effective Preaching

By Richard Hart, O.F.M. Cap. There is power in God's Word, but some complain of the slim fare they're fed

Editorial: Improving preaching

‘The Church in America is faced with the challenge of recapturing the Catholic vision of reality and presenting it in an engaging and imaginative way.’

Deacons and Preaching the Homily at Mass

By William Ditewig. Neither the pastor nor the bishop is the actual source of the faculty.

Creative Preaching

By Richard Hart. Walk with imagination in the footsteps of Jesus. (Subscription required)

Claiming Your Pulpit for Spiritual Leadership — Part I

By J. Ronald Knott. Priests have as their primary duty the proclamation of the Gospel of God to all. (Subscription required)

Claiming Your Pulpit for Personal Sanctification — II

By J. Ronald Knott. Preaching can make priests holy. (Subscription required)

Bishops begin work on new preaching document

By Scott Alessi. Upcoming statement will address best practices, goals for effective and heartfelt homilies

Advent: Patient Preaching in an Impatient Age

By Ronald D. Witherup, S.S. Preaching in our impatient and fast-paced society

A Year of Preaching

By Eugene Hemrick. A nuts-and-bolts approach proposed for proclaiming the Word of God