How inner transformation shapes outward proclamation. Your preaching is not God’s work. You are God’s work. I received this vision in a peculiar way. As I was minding my own business leading a ...

Instead of exhaustion, homiletics can bring you life. Perhaps the most visible part of pastoring is the upfront teaching and preaching. Bringing a timely and truthful message demands preparation, ...

As preachers of the word who have deep ties to both the faith and the secular world, deacons have a tremendous potential for affecting positive change toward the Gospel. We live the example daily by ...

(See Mark 3:14-15, Matthew 4:12-17 and 13:1-52, Luke 4:14-29 and John 1:35-51.) The Third Luminous Mystery is quite expansive: “the call to conversion and the proclamation of the Kingdom.” All of ...

The Rev. Bryan Massingale gives a sermon on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022, at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in the Harlem neighborhood of New York. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) ”We will never solve the ...

The readings of the Mass on Wednesday of the fourth week of Easter (cfr. Acts 12,24-13,5; Jn 12,44-50) somehow remind us of the need to spread the word of God, which is another way of saying that we ...

I taught religion in two Catholic high schools long ago. Freshman students were sometimes told by their older siblings to ask me this question: "Can God make a rock bigger than he can lift?" It was ...

GOOD HOPE, Ala. — It’s one thing for a church in a big city like Dallas or Atlanta to tackle the ticklish topic of sex. It blends in with the urban scene. It’s another thing when a small-town ...